Prof. Dr. Kristien Michielsen is an Associate Professor in the Promotion of Sexual Wellbeing and Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) at the Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium). Being trained in social and political sciences (KU Leuven, 2001), Kristien has been conducting multidisciplinary research in the area of sexual and reproductive health since 2006, mainly focusing on the sexual health and wellbeing of young people. CSE has been a core research focus, had Kristien has done studies on this in amongst others Belgium, Uganda and Ecuador. She recently authored a report for the European Commission on the status of CSE in Europe.

Cosimo Marco Scarcelli teaches New Media (BD in communication) and Digital Culture and Society (MD in Strategies of Communication) at University of Padua. His research deals with: sexuality, gender and digital culture; intimacies; pornography; masculinities; love and emotions; young people. He has been the principal editor of the book Gender and sexuality in the European media (Routledge, 2021) and associate editor of The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication (Wiley, 2020). Moreover, Cosimo Marco is an editor of Journal of Gender Studies and from 2016 to 2021 he served as vice-chair and then chair for ECREA’s Gender, Sexuality & Communication section. Cosimo Marco also works as a digital media educator (working primarily on the relations between digital media, gender and sexuality), in collaboration with different institutions and NGOs.