Founder

Dr Justine GattNeuroscientistFounder of Tilt Your Life

A glowing neural illustration of the human brain

Background

About theFounder

Dr Justine Gatt started as a neuroscientist asking careful questions — about the brain, genetics, and why some people still thrive despite trauma and adversity.

Over twenty five years, those questions grew into full research programs: twin and brain-imaging studies of flourishing, a longitudinal study following resilience after childhood trauma across more than a decade, and clinical trials testing wellbeing interventions in children, adolescents, and adults.

That body of work includes COMPAS-W, a six-domain wellbeing framework she developed and published through peer-reviewed research — now used internationally across resilience, ageing, and population mental health studies. She continues to lead active research programs, and holds academic and research leadership appointments as a Professor of Psychology.

As the founder of Tilt Your Life, she has created a neuroscience-informed platform that translates the best of published wellbeing science into practical tools for everyday life.

Tilt is the applied expression of that work: rigorous science, made usable, and human. It is what happens when that research is asked a different question: not what do we know, but what can someone actually use.

25+

Years researching wellbeing and resilience

110+

Peer-reviewed publications

100+

Invited talks worldwide

15+

National and international awards and prizes

I have spent more than twenty years studying why some people flourish even through difficulty. Tilt is my attempt to make what I've learned actually useful.

Dr Justine Gatt

Neuroscientist · Founder

A definition

Why Tiltwascreated

Justine's guiding principle, across every part of her research, is prevention before reaction — the belief that wellbeing is a foundation to protect early, not a reward for surviving difficulty. Working at scale only matters if the science is sound and the application is careful, which is part of why she moved beyond the bench: the evidence was needed in the places people already live their lives, not only in policy rooms and journals.

Tilt was built on that same principle, at an individual scale. Not a clinical tool. Not a self-help shortcut.

A rigorous, carefully built platform that meets people where they are and helps them move, gently, in a better direction.

The research.

Tilt is grounded in published wellbeing science drawing on peer-reviewed research across neuroscience, psychology, resilience, and behavioural science.

Tilt is grounded in published wellbeing sciencedrawing on peer-reviewed researchacross neuroscience, psychology,resilience, and behavioural science.

Dr Justine Gatt has not only drawn on that field but contributed to it, and Tilt reflects both the breadth of that evidence base and the depth of her expertise within it.

COMPAS-W was developed by Dr Justine Gatt as part of her broader program of work on wellbeing and resilience. It is a validated six-domain framework that looks at wellbeing not as a single score alone but as a pattern — one that shifts over time and responds to deliberate, evidence-informed practice.

The academic research — including peer-reviewed publications and institutional affiliations — is documented in full on the founder's personal website.

Composure

Own-worth

Mastery

Positivity

Achievement

Satisfaction

Composure

Own-worth

Mastery

Positivity

Achievement

Satisfaction

A sample of the findings

What the scienceactually says.

01 — MeasurementCOMPAS-W

domains measure wellbeing — the pattern behind the score.

Composure

Own-worth

Mastery

Positivity

Achievement

Satisfaction

02 — Validation

2,500+

adults and teenagers validated using the COMPAS-W framework

03 — Biology vs environment

48%

of wellbeing in general population can be influenced by biology

52%

is environment and life experiences

04 — Long-term health outcomes

Wellbeing predicts better long-term health outcomes

peers with lower wellbeing trajectories

70%

lower risk ofobesity

61%

lower risk ofalcohol problems

Better sleep and lifestyle patterns

Better perceived social support and work performance

05 — Faster than expected

6 weeks

is how soon consistent wellbeing habits start to show results.

05 — Faster than expected

6 weeks

is how soon consistent wellbeing habits start to show results.

Originalwriting

Dr Justine Gatt writes for Tilt's Learn series, and goes further in-depth as The Resilient Neuroscientist on Substack — longer-form thinking on resilience and wellbeing, for readers who want the ideas behind the science, not just the headlines.

It's where she works through the questions that don't fit neatly into a journal article: what the research actually feels like in practice, what she's learned from over twenty years of studying flourishing, and how it applies to the small, ordinary moments of a life, not just the extremes of crisis or clinical recovery.

Series 01

From theTilt Learn series

Short, foundational pieces from Tilt’s Learn library — the ideas the whole platform is built on.

Welcome to Tilt: What We're Building and Why

Product & Updates

Jul 27, 20264 min read

Welcome to Tilt: What We're Building and Why

An introduction to the app and the problem it's solving

What "Tilt" Means (And Why We Named It That)

From the Founder

Jul 27, 20264 min read

What "Tilt" Means (And Why We Named It That)

The idea behind the name, and what it says about how we think about wellbeing

The Science of Wellbeing

Jul 27, 20265 min read

The Six Domains of Wellbeing, Explained

A breakdown of Composure, Own-worth, Mastery, Positivity, Achievement and Satisfaction

From The ResilientNeuroscientist serieson Substack

Longer essays and field notes — the thinking behind the science, published regularly on Substack.

Neuroscience

Jul 10, 20268 min read

Why I’m Called the Resilient Neuroscientist

For most of my career, I sat at the intersection of two worlds that rarely speak to each other properly. In one, we publish papers, test neural networks...

Wellbeing

Jul 3, 202610 min read

Wellbeing Isn’t a Score. It’s a Profile

A little while ago I had a falling-out with someone close to me. The kind that sits in your chest — I felt the situation was genuinely unjust, and the anger sat there for days...

Resilience

Jun 26, 20267 min read

This Was My First ‘Baby.’ Fifteen Years Later, It Changed...

Recently, a paper from my team was published in American Psychologist (Connon et al., 2026)—the first findings from a study I began more than 15 years ago.

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