Tiago Miguel Pinto is an Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona, Porto University Center, deputy director of the Master in Clinical and Health Psychology, and co-coordinator of the Laboratory of Development and Psychopathology, and an integrated researcher at HEI-Lab – Digital Human Environment Interaction Lab. Within his teaching and research activities, he supervises several master’s and PhD theses in Clinical and Health Psychology, some of which are funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He holds a PhD in Applied Psychology (University of Minho, 2021) and is actively involved in studying perinatal mental health of mothers and fathers, family processes, and socio-emotional development and mental health in childhood, with high-impact scientific output. He has experience coordinating research teams as PI of funded projects and is a researcher in various funded international networks and projects in perinatal mental health and child development (e.g., TREASURE Cost Action CA22114; INTERSECT), maternal and neonatal healthcare (e.g., IMAgiNE GLOBAL), and family processes (ICOPAR network). He serves as associate editor of international journals in perinatal mental health and child development and is an invited reviewer for multiple international journals with impact factor. He has experience as an expert evaluator in international competitive funding. He is a board member of the Portuguese Language Group of the International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health and a member of the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology and the International Coparenting Research Network. He is part of organizing or scientific committees of international and national conferences.

Anat Talmon is an Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the founder and director of the Trauma Group. Her research examines how experiences of childhood abuse and neglect shape the body and self-representations across the lifespan. She also has extensive experience studying sibling sexual abuse. Anat is also a highly trained sexual abuse therapist.

Kaat De Backer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Women and Children’s Health at King’s College London and has a clinical background as a Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Midwife and matron of a Mother and Baby Unit. Her mixed-methods PhD focused on the outcomes and experiences of mothers who have children’s social care involvement during pregnancy and early motherhood.

Sandra Nakić Radoš is an Associate Professor at the University Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of Croatia. She is a researcher in peripartum psychology and a specialist in clinical psychology, with a training in cognitive-behavioural therapy. She holds a PhD in psychology, on peripartum depression (University of Zagreb, 2011), which she completed while working at the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, where she gained experience in reproductive mental health. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Sussex (UK), working on childbirth trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder after childbirth. She has been leading and collaborating on several domestic and international scientific projects on maternal mental health, including Horizon project HappyMums. She was a vice-chair of COST Action Riseup-PPD on peripartum depression, where she coordinated the development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, which she presented at the European Parliament. She has supervised master’s and PhD students at several institutions. She received the Voya Kondic Award from the British Scholarship Trust (2011) and the Rector’s Award for Excellence in Research (2024). She is a co-founder and president of the non-governmental organisation Centre for Reproductive Mental Health (Zagreb, Croatia). She has been engaged in the SRIP as the JRIP editorial board member, mentor in the mentorship programme, and a Communication Officer.

Dr Hannah Rayment-Jones is a midwife and Advanced NIHR Research Fellow at King’s College London (KCL), with 20 years’ experience across clinical, teaching and research roles. She supervises PhD and MSc students and is a funding panel member for the NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement (DSE) Award. Her research focuses on maternal and newborn health inequalities using realist and mixed methods approaches. She completed an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship in 2020, examining how maternity care can improve outcomes for women with low socio-economic status and social risk factors. She has since specialised in health data science to improve the recording of ethnicity and socio-economic status in maternity care, and has contributed to national evaluations of Maternal Mental Health Services and the development of ‘Hope Boxes’. Hannah is a reviewer for the Ockenden Maternity Review and has contributed to national and international policy. Her current Advanced NIHR Fellowship explores long-term outcomes for women and children with no recourse to public funds and irregular migration status, working with lived experience groups, policymakers and charities to inform practice and reduce inequalities.