Metka Shawe-Taylor was born in Slovenia and graduated in mathematics at the University of Ljubljana. She obtained a BSc and PhD in Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London and trained in clinical psychology at the University of Surrey. She has worked for the English National Health Service for 28 years and during this time has also taught clinical psychology and cognitive behavioural therapy at the University of Surrey, Kings College London and the University of Sussex. She is currently Director of Therapies at the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health, learning disabilities and drug and alcohol services to people of all ages who live in the county of Surrey and neighbouring areas.

Peter Janjušević holds PhD in psychology and works as a clinical psychologist at The Counselling Centre for Children, Parents and Adolescents Ljubljana. Most of his work is assessment, counselling and therapy with children and adolescents affected by different problems and disorders in their psychosocial functioning, among which, many have behavioural disorders. Besides clinical work, he is a lead of development and research institute at the Counselling centre Ljubljana, where together with colleagues from Counselling centre and other institutions he conducts research in the fields of emotional and behavioural disorders, system of mental health provision for children and adolescents in school settings and is coordinating projects in the area of youth mental health. He is a teacher and supervisor of cognitive-behavioural therapy and mentor to residents in clinical psychology. He also acts as a vice-president of Section for child and adolescent clinical psychology at the Chamber of clinical psychology of Slovenia. His doctoral dissertation titled »Violence risk-assessment of adolescents with conduct disorders« has been awarded by Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana with recognition as the best doctoral dissertation in the field of social sciences in the study year 2016/2017.

David Modic, Ph.D., an economic psychologist, is currently a visiting academic at the Faculty for Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. He was an Honorary Fellow of Exeter University until end of 2017 and has worked for the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory 2013-2018. He is also a senior member of King’s College, Cambridge, a visiting scholar at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge and a former deputy Head of Cambridge CERT (in charge of social engineering). dr Modic works on cybercrime and informational security with  governments (Brazil, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia, UK), NATO, and large enterprises (Websense, CallCredit, Octopus Group). In conjunction with his colleague, Kieren Lovell, David organizes hackathons and cyber wargames for the public and private sector.

Katja Košir, PhD in psychology, works as a lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts at the University of Maribor. She works with future teachers, psychologist and (inclusive) pedagogues; in addition, she participates in the teacher education training program (PAI). Her research interests are mainly focused on the non-cognitive factors of academic performance, especially social relations, i.e. peer relations and student-teacher relations and their role in students’ academic performance as well as their assessment. For several years, she was the head of the Center for Education and Professional Development at the Faculty of Education, University of Maribor. As an implementer of various trainings for professionals in the field of education, she strives to transfer scientific findings into practice and to effectively integrate and co-operate between academic community and educational institutions. She is and associate editor at the scientific journal Horizons of Psychology. In 2017, she received the award of the Educational Research Institute and The Slovenian Educational Research Association for outstanding achievements in the field of research in education.