Satja Mulej Bratec is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Maribor. She specializes in developmental clinical neuroscience and the analysis of functional brain mediators linking childhood difficulties to adult mental health outcomes. Her methodological expertise encompasses diverse neuroimaging data analyses, including functional connectivity and task activation. As the project leader, she manages overall coordination and leads the multimodal structural and functional MRI analyses investigating the neurobiological mediators of the bullying-mental health relationship.

Dieter Wolke is a leading expert in bullying and longitudinal research at University of Warwick. He serves as the director of the Bavarian Longitudinal Study (BLS) and previously served as the deputy director of the ALSPAC study. His research integrates psychology and medical sciences to explore developmental pathways leading to psychopathology. His extensive expertise in longitudinal cohorts supports the project’s primary objective to map the long-term influence of childhood and adolescent bullying on adult mental health outcomes.

Christian Sorg is a leading expert in neuropsychiatry, neuroimaging, and neurodevelopmental disorders at Klinikum rechts der Isar. He directs the BLS imaging sub-study. His work emphasizes the intrinsic functional connectivity of brain networks, which are crucial for understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of psychopathology. In this project, his expertise supports the investigation of longitudinal structural and functional brain alterations linked to childhood bullying and their subsequent impact on mental health across the lifespan.