Ilse Derluyn, the PI of the ChildMove Project, obtained her PhD in Educational Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) and is currently affiliated as a full professor to the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy (Ghent University) where she teaches courses in migration and refugee studies. Ilse’s main research topics concern the psychosocial wellbeing of unaccompanied refugee minors, migrant and refugee children, war-affected children, victims of trafficking, and child soldiers. She is also actively involved in supporting refugees and practitioners working with refugees and migrants, in policy research and policy-influence and has published over 100 international publications and books. Prof. Derluyn is heading the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) and is co-director of the Centre for Children in Vulnerable Situations (CCVS). Next to being the PI of the ERC-SG ChildMove, she also coordinates the H2020-project ‘RefugeesWellSchool’.