Nadia Micali, MD, MRCPsych, PhD, FAED, is Head of research in Eating Disorders. Nadia received her MD from the University of Messina School of Medicine in Italy, and her PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. She trained in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, with a focus on Eating Disorders at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK, and as an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, before becoming a Senior Lecturer and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Institute of Child health, University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Between 2014 and 2017 she was Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, US. Between 2017 and 2022 she was head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division at the University Hospital Geneva, and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Geneva, Switzerland; where she also set up a multidisciplinary evidence-based treatment program for child and adolescent feeding and eating disorders from scratch. In the last 15 years her research has focused on understanding biological and intergenerational risk for eating disorders using a developmental perspective, and on population-based and clinical studies aimed at improving recognition and treatment of feeding and eating disorders. Her research spans several methods, such us epidemiology, genomics, behavioural and clinical studies, physiology, neuroimaging. She is on the editorial board of top journals in the field, including European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, European Eating Disorders review, and British Journal of Psychiatry Open. She currently serves as an elected executive board member on the Eating Disorders Research Society (for which she served as president in 2015); and on the Membership Committee of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics. She served on several committees of the Academy of Eating Disorders between 2005-2020. Her contributions to the field of eating disorders have been recognized by several awards, most notably a prestigious fellowship by the Academy of Eating Disorders in 2014, her election as 2015 President of the Eating Disorders Research Society, and a Leadership in Research Award from the Academy of Eating Disorders in 2022. She co-chairs the London International Eating Disorders Conference. ​