Alfonso Pezzella is the IENE 9 Project Coordinator and Lecturer at Middlesex University. His research interests are mental Health, wellbeing, cultural competence, health inequalities, gender, sexuality and LGBTQ+ studies.

Professor of Transcultural Health and Nursing. Prof Papadopoulos is the Head of the Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health at Middlesex University. Her research interests are culture/compassion/diversity and health, inequalities in health, disability and health.

Victor Dudau is the country lead for Romania. Dudau is the president of the EDUNET Organisation and general manager of the “EDUNET” School.

Dr Christiana Kouta is the country lead for Cyprus and Associate Professor of Nursing.
She is also involved in two other EU projects in regards to Cultural Competent and Compassionate Health Care Leaders and Intercultural Health Care Teams. Other strong areas of interest focus on sexual violence, femicide and youth sexual aggression and victimization.

Dr Elena Rousou

Dr Patricia Rocamora Pérez is an Associate Professor at the Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine at the UAL.
She has extensive experience in clinical Physiotherapy and university teaching, as well as in academic management, as vice dean and secretary of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the UAL. Currently, she holds the position of director of the Secretariat for the Healthy University, in the Vice-Rector’s Office for Sports, Sustainability and Healthy University of the UAL.

Dr Remedios López Liria is a psychologist and physiotherapist. Associate Professor at the Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine at the UAL.
Director of the Research Group PAI HUM-498 “Psychological intervention in development, education and guidance”. Her main lines of research include Innovation, Vocational Education and Training, Health and Rehabilitation.
She has experience in developing and implementing training manuals/tools as well as using quantitative and qualitative methodologies within health sector. Also, she has coordinated and/or participated in different EU projects related to migrants, community and transcultural health.

Roberto Baiocco, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). He has research interests in three main areas: 1) risk and protective factors experienced by LGBT+ people; 2) coming out process and psychological well-being; 3) same-sex parent families and the well-being of children raised by LGBT+ parents. Since 2010 he has been Director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity at Sapienza University.

Jessica Pistella, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Developmental and Social Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome. She has research interests in two areas of the developmental psychology: 1) Gender prejudice and homophobia in sports-related contexts; 2) Attitudes towards same-sex parenting; 3) the coming-out and the developmental of a positive LGB identity in sexual minority people.