Sivan Regev is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Haifa, Israel. Sivan's research topics include evaluating executive functions and strategy use in daily living domains, especially grocery shopping and media use, in people with severe mental illnesses. In addition, Sivan consults for the Israeli Ministry of Health Committee for Mental Health Services in the Community. She is involved in the mental health initiative, “Nefashot,” which promotes events in the cultural arena to address and improve mental health issues. In her present postdoctoral research, Sivan focus on the population of adults with neurodevelopmental disorders, and is also the Dissemination Executive, in the Laboratory for the Study of Complex Human Activity and Participation, University of Haifa.

Anita Riecher-Rössler is Professor emerita of Psychiatry at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She has specialized in psychiatry, psychotherapy/ psychoanalysis, consultation/liaison psychiatry, and geronto-psychiatry. In 1998, she was the first woman to be appointed to a full chair for psychiatry in a German-speaking country. Her research interests include schizophrenic psychoses, gender differences in mental disorders, and mental disorders in women. In the field of schizophrenic psychoses, she has mainly worked on the onset and early detection of these disorders, but also on late-onset schizophrenia. In the field of women’s mental health, she is particularly interested in the peripartum and the menopausal transition and in psycho-neuroendocrine and psychosocial risk factors. She was a founding member/president of several interdisciplinary societies for women’s mental health. In 2018 she was awarded the Constance Pascal-Helen Boyle Prize by the European Psychiatric Association. According to Web of Science in 2020 she belongs to the most highly cited researchers of the world. Currently, she is Editor-in-Chief of the “Archives of Women’s Mental Health” and active in publishing, teaching, counseling, and mentoring and in many national and international societies and advisory boards.