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Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, Full Professor (School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Spain), Specialist in Clinical Psychology, has been the Director of the Eating Disorders (ED) Unit at the Clinical Psychology Department (University Hospital Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain), current Scientific Director of Research Institute IDIBELL, Vicedirector of CIBERobn (Excellence Spanish Research Network for Obesity and Nutrition), co-Head of Research Group CIBERobn and co-Head of Group Psychoneurobiology of Eating and Addictive Behaviours (IDIBELL). He is former president of the Eating Disorders Research Society (EDRS) and current co-Chair of the ED Section of the World Psychiatric Association. He obtained his PhD in Psychology in 1996 at the University of Hamburg (Germany). His previous appointments were as a Clinical Psychologist at the Psychiatric University Hospital of Hamburg (1994-1995), long-term predoctoral Research Fellowship in Hannover, Germany (1992-1993) and Consultant Psychologist at the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Bellvitge in Barcelona (1996-03). He gave more than 400 invited lectures in International or National professional Psychology, Psychiatry, Nutrition/Endocrinology Conferences. Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders and Past-Editor in Chief of European Eating Disorders Review (2011-2022). Awarded with the Meehan Hartley Award for Public Service and/or Advocacy-2004, leadership Research Award-2015, and Hilde Bruch Lecture Award-2017 (University of Tübingen, Germany). He received several additional awards on development and innovation (Best European Video game for health-2011; Best Spanish Research Ideas-Diario Medico 2011). He has been PI in International/ EU Grants (11) and in National Grants (22). He has published more than 500 English peer-reviewed manuscripts in international journals. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2968-9898