Professor Nadia Micali is Head of Research in Eating Disorders at the Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research. 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. 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 as epidemiology, genomics, behavioural and clinical studies, physiology, and neuroimaging.