Maria Nobile is specialist in Psychiatry and obtained an international PhD in Experimental Psychiatry at Maastricht University. She has over 25 years of experience of clinical work and clinical research in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. Main research interests are in Developmental psychopathology (including ADHD, Autism, externalizing disorder, and anxiety/depression). She is author of more than 100 articles in experimental psychiatry with more than 1600 international citations, h-index 24. Currently she is in charge of the Unit of Child Psychopharmachology and Psychotherapy and of the Unit of Rehabilitation for children with complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Scientific Institute, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, www.emedea.it. She is adjunct professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Psychology Department of the Sigmund Freud University, Milan and at the Department of Medicine of the Humanitas University, Milan, Italy. Member of the European Psychiatric Association (Secretary of the EPA Neuroimaging Section), of the Italian Society of Psychiatry and of the Italian Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Affective Disorder and Section Editor of the Special Section on "Translational and Neuroscience Studies in Affective Disorders" of the Journal of Affective Disorders

Being an active carer to her brother who lives with schizophrenia and seeing the problems faced by families trying to cope with mental illness consequences and the unfairness of the situation service users find themselves in prompted Aikaterini to become actively involved in the mental health issues that affect vulnerable people and society as a whole. This is why she decided to study Law and to delve deeper in mental health, law and human rights. She is a member of the WHO Patients for Patient Safety Advisory Group (PFPS AG) and the WHO Technical Advisory Group on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 in the WHO European Region, the EC pool of experts, the IHI pool of patient experts, and she has worked with governments and organisations on mental health policies and legislations, including in Greece, Afghanistan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Sierra Leone. Aikaterini has been a Technical Reviewer of the WHO QualityRights materials for training, guidance and transformation, and she invests time and passion to build capacity among key stakeholders on how to implement a human rights and recovery approach in the area of mental health in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other international human rights standards.

I am Professor of Neurodevelopment and Mental Health, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Head of Psychology and Outcome Studies, Centre for the Developing Brain, Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health. My research focuses on the long-term sequelae of typically and atypically developing individuals, using a multidisciplinary perspective bridging neuroscience, neuropsychology and psychiatry. My work has been instrumental in establishing how the developing brain is affected by premature birth and the impacts of this on learning, attention, executive function and emotional regulation in children and adults. This information is essential to inform the development of predictive and preventative studies. I currently lead the follow-up of large longitudinal cohorts of typically and atypically developing children and adults both at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and at the Centre for the Developing Brain.