Professor Kuan-Pin Su, MD and PhD, specializes in Translational Brain Research, which integrates various psychotherapeutic approaches such as nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, phytochemicals, acupuncture, photobiomodulation, and transcranial magnetic stimulation, to connect basic and clinical research. As one of the founding committee members of the International Society of Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR), he established an ISNPR advisory sub-committee that published the “Practice Guidelines for Omega-3 Fatty Acids in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder” (Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics 2019).

Dr Megan Lee is an early career researcher, scientist, and academic at Bond University on the Gold Coast in Australia. Dr Lee has a Bachelor in Psychological Science (Honours) and a PhD in nutritional psychiatry. Dr Lee has published research on food and mood, plant-based diet and depressive symptoms, body image, and intuitive and disordered eating

Julia is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Canterbury and the Director of Te Puna Toiora, the Mental Health and Nutrition Research Lab. Co-author of The Better Brain. She is well known for her research investigating the interface between nutrition and mental health and is passionate about challenging the current medical paradigm that dominates our understanding of psychiatric problems with the goal of raising awareness of how our food environment is a significant contributor to poor mental health.

A/Prof Navarro leads the Mucosal Immunology Group at QIMR Berghofer and is the Director of Discovery Science at the Centre for Children Nutrition Research (QUT). She has established her career in immunotherapy discovery based on small molecules isolated from the microbiome, metabolome and gastrointestinal parasites. She is a Lead Investigator in clinical studies to better define microbiome/metabolome-immune interactions in traumatic brain injury, allergy onset, celiac disease and cancer to develop tools and predictive biomarkers for better diagnosis and early interventions.

Dr Samantha Dawson is a nutritionist and experienced bioinformatician within Deakin University’s Food & Mood Centre. Her research aims to translate Nutritional Psychiatry into pregnancy care settings by supporting prenatal diet quality and the subsequent gut microbiome in pregnant women. Samantha aims to contribute towards the ISNPR by representing ECRs and helping with capacity building, fostering collaborations, and encouraging a multi-disciplinary approach to Nutritional Psychiatry research.

Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of Medical Sciences (PhD) at the Medical University of Graz, Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Lecturer, Psychotherapist (Behavioral Therapy) and Scientist specialized in the gut microbiome and gut-brain axis in psychiatric disorders, Leader of the research group “gut-brain axis in psychiatry”, Founder of the “Teaching Unit for Nutritional Medicine in Psychiatry” at the MUG, Diploma for Nutritional Medicine, Board Member in the Austrian Society for Nutrition (ÖGE).

Dr. Kathleen Holton is an Associate Professor co-appointed in the Departments of Health Studies and Neuroscience at American University in Washington DC. She is a nutritional neuroscientist whose research examines the negative effects of food additives on neurological symptoms, as well as the positive protective effects of certain micronutrients on the brain. The main focus of her research is on glutamate, an excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain which is dysregulated in many neurological and psychiatric conditions. Dr. Holton’s research focuses on reducing the neurotoxic triad of excitotoxicity, neuroinflammation, and oxidative stress by reducing exposure to dietary excitotoxins while also increasing intake of key protective micronutrients.

Dr Caroline Wallace is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Part-Time Professor in the School of Nutrition Sciences and Institute for Mental Health Research at the University of Ottawa and the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre in Ottawa, Canada. Her research program focuses on examining how diet and nutrition affect mental health outcomes through activity of the gut microbiota-immune-brain axis. Currently, she is investigating this relationship in the context of the perinatal period

Dr. Annabel Mueller-Stierlin is a nutrition scientist and biostatistician working as postdoctoral researcher at Ulm University. Her research focuses on the development, implementation and evaluation of integrated care approaches by multi-professional teams. Her special interest is the exploration of lifestyle behaviours of people with mental illness in terms of physical and mental health.

Jeni Johnstone, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. She leads the Science of Nutrition, Affect and Cognition in Kids (SNACK) lab, focused on multinutrient supplementation for mental health conditions. In addition to examining behavioral response, she is collaborating with across disciplines to understand for whom and why vitamins and minerals confer benefit by examining biomarkers of symptom severity, and response to treatment.

Tasnime Akbaraly is a scientific researcher in Epidemiology. She holds a permanent position at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Montpellier (France). Specialising in nutritional epidemiology, Tasnime’s work aims to understand the role of diet in age-related chronic diseases and mental health by paying a special interest to the social gradient underlying dietary behavior and by investigating the biological and metabolic pathways through which overall diet is likely to influence mental and cognitive health. Currently she is also developing a research program on the role of diet in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Dr Aniko Korosi was a postdoc at UCI in the lab of dr. Baram (2006-2010) where she studied how enriched early life experience rewires the hypothalamus. At the end of 2010 she started her team and she is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Her research is funded by several national and international programs (e.g. NWO Food Cognition and Behavior, NWO Meervoud, JPI- Nutri-Cog and Alzheimer Nederland, Horizon 2020, JPND). Her team includes several PhD students and postdocs and her research focuses on the programming of cognitive functions by early-life stress and aging and on the role of metabolic signals, nutrients and epigenetic mechanisms in relation to Alzheimer’s disease and depression. Her work encompasses pre-clinical work using an established mouse model of chronic early-life stress and clinical work and she is interested in developing peripheral (e.g. nutritional) intervention to prevent and/or reverse the lasting consequences of early-life stress as well as human studies investigating the effects of stress on breastmilk composition.