About the Author

Nina Jane Patel is a researcher, movement psychotherapist, and founder of My Guardian Global, working at the intersection of emotional wellbeing, digital safety, and the future of childhood. Her work exploers how advancing technologies shape children and young people's identity, relationships, and development. She is currently completing a PhD in Psychology at the University of Reading, specialising in immersive tech and childhood.

With two decades of experience across clinical practice, research, and global advisory roles, Nina has become a leading voice on how families can navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape with clarity and emotional intelligence. She serves as Senior Advisor to the Child Online Harms Policy Think Tank, consults for international organisations and brands - including Yves St Laurent Beauty's Abuse is Not Love initiative and contributes to policy conversations shaping the future of digital childhood.

Nina's work is grounded in both professional expertise and lived experience as a mother of four. She is committed to empowering families, children, young people as well as educators and policymakers with the tools and language needed to support chidlren growing up in a quantum-mediated world.

Childhood in a Quantum Age, published by Springer Nature, brings together her research, clinical insight, and systems-level thinking to reimagine what childhood can bein a time of unprecedented technological change.