Massimo Biondi is full professor of psychiatry and head of the psychiatry residency program at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is also head of the Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health and of the psychiatric inpatient care unit at the Policlinico Umberto I Hospital in Rome. He has authored 30 books and more than 450 scientific papers on topics ranging from psychopathology to stress and psychosomatic medicine. He is editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal "Rivista di Psichiatria", indexed in PubMed/Medline. 

Massimo Pasquini, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Department Of Human Neurosciences - SAPIENZA University of Rome, Italy. He is also Coordinator of the Outpatient Service for Psycho-Oncology.He has authored or coauthored around 68 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (H index 19, Scopus 2018), as well as a number of book chapters. He has delivered many presentations and posters at national and international congresses.

Angelo Picardi is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, currently working as researcher at the Centre for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health of the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome, Italy. His main research topics are psychopathology, psychosomatic medicine, psychiatric epidemiology, attachment, alexithymia, and epilepsy. He has been Principal Investigator for several studies funded by the Italian Ministry of Health. He is author of 136 full papers published in international peer-reviewed journals, and his current H index is 36. He is an editorial board member of several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Affective Disorders, Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, and Rivista di Psichiatria.