Jemma King

Jemma King is an Australian researcher who has worked on emotional-intelligence training and psycho-physiological stress in sport and military settings. She a research fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland (UQ).

Early life and education King spent her childhood moving around Australia as the family followed her father's hotel-management postings, living in Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville and Canberra; the itinerant lifestyle, she has said, sparked an early fascination with individual differences in behaviour. After leaving school she worked briefly as a fashion model and performed stunt-double work on Police Academy 7 before turning full-time to psychology.

King developed a pre-deployment "Performance Optimisation Program" for military personnel, the programme has since been extended to high-performance sport organisations such as the Australian Olympic swim team.

Personal life King lives in Brisbane and is the mother of three children.

Awards and recognition At the eighteenth Global Wellness Summit in St Andrews, Scotland, in November 2024, King and Wim Hof received the Bennett Family Award for Collaboration in the Science of Wellness.