Hilda Rømer Christensen is associated professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. She has been head of the Coordination for Gender Studies at University of Copenhagen 1996-2024. Besides she has been involved in gender expert research committees at Nordic and European levels, latest in the EU Commission to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Advisory board.
She has written extensively on gender, culture, religion, welfare, and citizenship more lately on gender and innovation in transport and sustainability in comparative European and Sino Nordic perspective. Hilda has supervised PhD. +  MA dissertations and papers + organized seminars, summer-schools, and workshops focused on intersectionality and diversity in various contexts and theoretical and empirical levels. 

Nicola Marsden is a research professor of social informatics at Heilbronn University, Germany, She has served as an expert for numerous committees, including the European Research Area and Innovation Committee for Gender in Research and Innovation, the Third Equal Equality Report of the German Government, or the German UNESCO Commission for AI and Gender. Trained as a psychologist, she held leadership and consulting roles in international organizations, where she led change management and personnel development processes prior to her professorial appointment.

Her work bridges psychology, software engineering, design research, and organizational behavior to foster collaboration and innovation in tech development—often with a gender lens. She conducts research in real-world infrastructures such as living labs, using participatory and theory-informed methods to address structural bias and enable inclusive, human-centered design. Her current research focuses on behavioral design to de-bias design processes and socially responsible development of artificial intelligence.

Alena Křížková is head of the Gender and Sociology Department at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods and develops an intersectional approach to the study of social inequalities. Her research focuses on economic and social justice, the gender pay gap, work-life balance, the production of inequality in organizations, entrepreneurship and innovation, and technological change. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Arizona State University for comparative CZ-US research on entrepreneurship environment for disadvantaged populations and gender equality. She is an expert in the "Scientific analysis and advice on gender equality in the EU" (SAAGE) for the European Commission, a board member of the Global Women's Entrepreneurship Policy network (https://www.globalwep.org/about) and a member of the Comparative Organizational Inequality Network (https://www.umass.edu/coin/).

Andree Woodcock is Professor for Education, Ergonomics & Design at the Coventry University and the Scientific lead of t Horizon Europe GILL Project.