Samira Rostami knows that getting young people to stick with healthy habits is one of the hardest problems in public health – and she’s using VR to crack it.

As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona, she works on YoungFitT – a project testing whether immersive environments make mindfulness and physical training more effective and more likely to last for university students.

Her background is in exercise physiology, her focus is mental wellbeing, and her question is deceptively simple: what actually makes people feel better and keep going? Come find out what she’s learning.