**About the Editors**

#### **Paul Badcock**

Paul Badcock, Ph.D., is an academic specialist at the Centre for Youth Mental Health at The University of Melbourne, and at Orygen, a world-leading organization that specializes in youth mental health research and knowledge translation. His interests include theoretical psychology, evolutionary psychology, cognitive neuroscience, the free energy principle, mood and affective disorders, and youth mental health. He was the first to introduce the free energy principle to the breadth of subdisciplines in psychology, and is a leading expert on evolutionary models of human brain function. As an educator, he oversees the suite of online graduate courses in youth mental health offered by The University of Melbourne and Orygen, which equip teachers and health professionals with the latest theory, research and evidence-based approaches regarding youth mental health care.

#### **Maxwell Ramstead**

Maxwell Ramstead, Ph.D., is the Director of Research at VERSES and affiliated with the Spatial Web Foundation. His research focuses on the free-energy principle, multiscale active inference, and computational phenomenology. He now directs the VERSES Research Lab, which focuses on probabilistic model-based approaches to (artificial) intelligence (e.g., model-based reinforcement learning, active inference, multi-agent modelling and group inference, computational phenomenology of XR experience, category theory, and AI ethics.

#### **Zahra Sheikhbahaee**

Zahra Sheikhbahaee, Ph.D., is working with Prof. Jesse Hoey at University of Waterloo and Prof. Karl Friston at University College London. The field of research is Probabilistic Graphical models, Bayesian statistics, Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning, combining optimal control algorithms with advances in deep reinforcement learning.

#### **Axel Constant**

Axel Constant, M.A. M.Sc. is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy of Biomedicine based at the University of Sydney. He works under the supervision of Paul Griffiths, Paul Badcock, Laurence Kirmayer, and Karl Friston. His published work is at the intersection of Evolutionary Biology, the Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Psychiatry, and Evolutionary Cultural Anthropology. His current work applies methods employed in Computational Psychiatry to theories in Cultural Psychiatry and Evolutionary Psychiatry.
