Professor of physiotherapy and neuroscientist at Umeå university (UMU), Sweden with a clinical position at the University Hospital of Umeå. Charlotte has a PhD in neurophysiology, and longstanding experience in teaching, including managing digital courses since 2003. She is head of the transdisciplinary research team U-Motion Laboratory, a research and clinical facility which is part of the infrastructure at UMU. She has published ~150 peer reviewed research papers mainly related to human movement control in neurological as well as musculoskeletal conditions, and also related to education. Lately, her research has focused particularly on ACL injury and motor control involving also interpretations using artificial intelligence. She has presented at about 200 international congresses, supervised more than 25 PhD students and post-docs. Charlotte is further a frequent keynote lecturer in physiotherapy or related fields nationally and internationally and holds an extensive professional and inter-professional network internationally. She is a former member of the ER-WP Working Group on Educational Matters and she was scientific chair of the World Physiotherapy Congress in 2019. Charlotte has received multiple awards, such as from Umeå university, by Queen Silvia of Sweden, and an international service award by WP in 2019 and was also awarded "The physiotherapist of the year" in 2019 by the Swedish Association of physiotherapists. She is currently Chair of the committee of Medicine and Health of the Swedish Research Council since 2025, and vice chair of the Swedish Research Council of Sport Science since 2020.

Professor. Hanan Khalil is a professor of neurological rehabilitation at Qatar University, department of rehabilitation sciences, college of health sciences. Professor. Khalil is a researcher in the area of rehabilitation and exercise and related outcome measures in people with Long Term Neurological Conditions (LTNCs) namely multiple sclerosis (MS), dementia and Parkinson's disease (PD). Further research interest includes cross-cultural adaptation and validation of outcome measures in Arabic language as well as motor learning and the impact of exercise on improving non-motor symptoms in these populations including sleep, cognition an mood.
As part of her PhD degree at Cardiff University-UK and for the past 13 years, Dr. Khalil has been actively involved in these areas of research. She successfully obtained funding (as a principal investigator) and led clinical several studies (both observational and interventional) in people with neurological diseases and mental health issues. Dr. Khalil was a member of the International Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders society (MDS) task force for the Middle East and currently is a member of the MDS working group for the Middle East. Through this, Dr. Khalil led two multi-site projects for translating and validating standardized outcome measures in PD in Arabic language. She also led several MDS educational courses in the area of rehabilitation for people with neurological diseases for the allied health professions. As a recognition of her research and scholarly activities, Dr. Khalil won the L'Oréal UNESCO for Women In Science Levant fellowship in 2018 and further she was selected for the TechWomen Emerging Leader Program award as well as for the International Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders' Society (MDS) LEAP program for young leaders of 2019. Further, she was selected to participate in a number of WHO advisory committees in the area of brain health and neurodegeneration.

Associate Professor Tasha Stanton is co-Director of IIMPACT in Health at the University of South Australia, Adelaide. She also leads the Persistent Pain Research Group at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. She is a clinical pain neuroscientist, with original training as a physiotherapist, and her research focusses on pain – why do we have it and why doesn't it go away? She has received >$9.3m in competitive research funding, including fellowships from the Canadian Institute for Health Research and the National Health & Medical Research Council (Early Career Fellowship, Career Development Fellowship), has published >120 peer-reviewed journal articles, and she has been a keynote/invited speaker at >110 national and international conferences. Her research has won both national and international awards, including the World Congress of Pain Ronald Dubner Research Prize, the Australian Pain Society Rising Star Award and the Australian Physiotherapy Association Best New Investigator Award. At UniSA, Associate Professor Stanton leads CREW (Communicating to the REal World), a research communication seminar program that aims to upskill trainees and researchers in tailoring their communication to various media outlets.