Christopher Gillberg
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the head of the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre. His research ranges from genetics and basic neuroscience through epidemiology and clinical phenomenology to treatments/interventions and outcome in several intellectual and developmental disabilities including autism, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, intellectual disability, depression, anorexia nervosa, and other areas relevant for children’s and adolescents’ mental and neurological health. Christopher Gillberg is also a Chief Physician at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and has more than 45 years of extensive clinical work in the treatment of patients and families with complex neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Gaia Scerif
Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, England. She is the head of the Attention, Brain & Cognitive Development lab. Her research focuses on understanding how genetic and environmental factors affect attentional differences and difficulties in relation to memory and learning. Her research includes the development of attentional control and those underlying attentional difficulties, from their neural correlates to their outcomes on emerging cognitive abilities. She has published scientific papers on several intellectual and developmental disabilities including fragile X syndrome, Williams syndrome, Down syndrome, and on mixed aetiology and neurodivergent communities.
Jenny Wilder
Jenny Wilder is a Professor in Special Education and the Head of the Department of Special Education, Stockholm University. Jenny Wilder’s research focuses primarily on intellectual disability and encompasses areas such as communication and interaction, participation, support provision, collaboration, and educational transitions. She is also a Research Associate in the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria and a Research Associate at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University.
