Jari Hakanen is a research professor at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, a docent in social psychology in the University of Helsinki and a visiting professor at Keio University, Tokyo.

His areas of expertise include positive work psychology and occupational health psychology with special interests in work engagement, burnout, job boredom, servant leadership, job crafting, work-family interface, and mental health. He has received gold medal of special merit for particularly distinguished and long-standing nationwide efforts to promote better work environments in Finland, as well as the advocate of good working life and the Finnish working life researcher of the year awards. Together with his collaborators he has received the best article awards from Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and from Journal of Organizational Behavior. He is convinced that despite many on-going work-life changes, workplaces are able to build sustainable well-being and flourishing.

Sabine Sonnentag is a full professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Mannheim, Germany and was ranked among the top 1% of researchers worldwide according to the Clarivate “Highly Cited Researchers 2024” list.

Prof Sonnentag and her team address issues of job stress and daily recovery from job stress, as well as self-regulatory approaches to work, by researching how individuals can achieve sustainable high performance on the job and remain healthy at the same time. Her areas of expertise include job stress, health behaviour (eating, physical exercise) in relation to work, self-regulation and proactive behaviour at work.