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A/Professor Justine Gatt is Director of the , Principal Scientist of the Gatt Resilience Group at and the School of Psychology ���������¼�, and invited External Fellow at the . Renowned for her expertise in mental wellbeing, resilience neuroscience, and clinical translation, A/Prof Gatt pioneered Australia's first research program of its kind. She has authored >105 publications, amassing >6,600 citations, with 4 papers ranking in the top 1% in the field. She has secured >$15.7 million in funding, and has supervised >51 research staff and students, including 33 HDR students. Delivering 100+ invited talks, and featuring in 55 media stories and engagements, she is well-versed in translating complex research insights for diverse audiences. She has held multiple senior leadership roles, including Director of the Centre for Wellbeing, Resilience and Recovery, Non-Executive Board Director for Wellbeing Australia, Chief Scientific Advisor for private industry, Chair of the NeuRA Research Council, and Chair of the NeuRA Seminar Committee.

With over 20 years of experience in mental health and wellbeing research, she has led a research program that focuses on understanding the neuroscience of wellbeing and resilience to stress and trauma, and ways wellbeing and resilience can be promoted via various intervention platforms. Her work includes leading longitudinal neuroimaging studies of adults and adolescents, twin studies (e.g., and ), wellbeing program development for organisations (e.g., ), wellbeing app development (e.g., ) and other trials in . At the crux of her projects is the primary outcome measure of wellbeing using the (Gatt et al., 2014) which she has developed and validated in adults and adolescents from age 12 and above, and the for children aged 5 - 12 years and their parents.

A/Prof Gatt has also received a number of prizes and awards for her research including the ���������¼� Staff Award for Research Collaboration (2024), the Worldwide University Network (WUN) Success Story awarded to her WUN Resilience Research Group for ‘Exceptional Levels of Achievement’ (2019), the Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Medical Research (2014), the NHMRC Excellence Award for top-ranked CDF fellowship (2014), and the Westmead Millennium Institute Science Prizes (2009 and 2010).