Nikola Žaja, MD, is an early career psychiatrist from Croatia. He finished his psychiatric training in 2021 and works as a psychiatrist at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče in Zagreb, Croatia. Dr. Žaja is also a PhD student at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine. Since 2019, Dr. Žaja is Secretary general of the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees.

Dieter graduated as a medical doctor (VUB 2003) and became psychiatry registrar (UZ Brussel 2008). He is clinician (department of psychiatry) and VUB tutor and lecturer (communication, medical psychology, psychiatry,...) with research interest in addiction, neuromodulation, functional (or medically unexplained physical) symptoms, cognition and the humanities. He was principal investigator in industry-driven studies and collaborated in academic research on alcohol, TMS and tDCS, MDD and more.

Patrizia Zeppegno is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Università del Piemonte Orientale UPO, in Novara, Italy. She directs the Psychiatry Ward (Servizio Psichiatrico di Diagnosi e Cura) of the Maggiore della Carità University Hospital in Novara, Italy. She is the head of the School of Specialization in Psychiatry, of the Master for Psychiatric Nurses and of the Master in Narrative Medicine. She is the director of the Counseling Service of the Università del Piemonte Orientale. She is the author of several publications of international relevance and one of her main fields of research is suicidology.