Gery Karantzas is a Professor in the School of Psychology, the Director of the Science of Adult Relationships (SoAR) Laboratory and Co-Director of the CONNECT Research and Training Initiative within the Centre for Social and Emotional Development (SEED-Lifespan) at Deakin University. He is also a couples therapist certified in Integrative Behavioural Couples Therapy and is the founder of Relationship Science Online. Gery is one of Australia’s leading relationship scientists and has authored over 150 publications, with many of these appearing in top-tier journals. He has been awarded over $6 million for his research from the Australian Research Council, the National Medical Health and Research Council and beyondblue to examine how relationship processes are associated with relational and personal wellbeing. The majority of his work takes an attachment theory perspective and has trained and collaborated with some of the world’s and Australia’s leading attachment researchers including Professors Phillip Shaver (University of California, Davis), Jeffry Simpson (University of Minnesota), and Professors Pat Noller and Judith Feeney (University of Queensland). He and colleagues Professor Omri Gillath (University of Kansas) and R. Chris Fraley (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) wrote the widely disseminated book Adult Attachment: A Concise Guide into Theory and Research (2016, Academic Press). In recent years, Gery has embarked on basic and applied research into Schema Therapy from an attachment informed perspective. Gery has written numerous pieces for the Conversation and Psychology Today totalling over 4 million reads and is frequently contacted by the media to discuss all matters associated with science of relationships.