Veronica Riniolo is Associate Professor of Sociology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy). She has experience leading national and international research projects and fostering interdisciplinary and cross-national collaborations. Her teaching focuses on social research methods and the sociology of interethnic relations. Her research interests include youth political participation, migration, ethnic relations, and social inequalities, with particular attention to the discrimination and social exclusion experienced by people with a migrant background and ethnic minorities. She is actively involved in several international research networks, including the European Values Study (EVS).

Bogdan Voicu is research professor with Romanian Academy (Research Institute for Quality of Life), Professor of Sociology with Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, and Professor of Research Methods with the National Academy of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest. His research interests are related to social change, with a focus on value formation and change. His publications deal with the interplay between societal and individual change, in particular in times of stress (transition, pandemics, societal turmoil) or under conditions of international migration and remigration.

Duygu Karadon is a doctoral candidate in Sociology — European Societies at Freie Universität Berlin. She has comprehensive experience working on several international research projects, including the World Values Survey (WVS), the European Values Survey (EVS), and the implementation and impact evaluation of the Willows' Reproductive Health Programs (in cooperation with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health). She holds an MA in Sociology from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, as well as an MA in Cinema-Television and a BA in Sociology from Bahçeşehir University. Her research interests include comparative values, democracy, electoral behavior, experimental methods, and survey methodology.

Josip Ježovita, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb. He has extensive experience working on both national and international research projects, with a strong focus on fostering interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaboration. His teaching expertise centers on social research methods and statistical data analysis. Dr. Ježovita's primary research interests include the sociology of science, social values, social cohesion, and social research methodology. He is also actively involved in several international research networks, most notably the European Values Study (EVS).

“Claudiu Tufiș is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Bucharest (Romania), where he teaches research methods, quantitative methodology, and civil society. His research focuses on people’s thoughts and actions in relation to the political context. This includes political culture, democracy, electoral behavior, and civil society. He is also interested in public policies related to the higher education system in Romania. He is editor-in-chief for the Romanian Journal of Political Science. In addition to teaching, research, and consulting work, he also volunteers his expertise to various NGOs that promote transparency, accountability, and improvement of the political system."

Beatrice-Elena Chromková Manea is a sociologist at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic). She has experience leading comparative international research projects and fostering cross-national collaborations. Her teaching focuses on quantitative methods, data analysis, population studies, and social inequalities. Her research interests include value orientations, population trends, gender roles, health inequalities, and social inequalities, often approached through comparative quantitative research. She is actively involved in several international research networks, including the European Values Study (EVS), for which she serves as Czech national coordinator and, since 2022, a member of its Scientific Advisory Committee.

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Katarína Strapcová is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, a public research institution. Her research interests include social inequalities, social stratification, environmental sociology, and cross-national comparative research. She has been the national representative for Slovakia in the European Values Study (EVS) international research programme for many years, contributing to comparative research on values and social change across Europe. She also represents the Slovak Archive of Social Data (SASD) in the Service Provider Forum of CESSDA ERIC, the pan-European research infrastructure for social science data, where she contributes to the development and coordination of research data services.

Quita Muis is Assistant Professor in Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. She studies polarization, particularly regarding values and identity development and the effects of and on politics and society. She contributes to the European Values Study

Raül Tormos is Head of Methodology and Research at the Centre for Opinion Studies (CEO), the official public opinion research institute of the Government of Catalonia (Spain). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and has extensive experience in survey design, public opinion research, and the coordination of national and international research projects. He also teaches political behavior and survey methodology at universities and public institutions in Catalonia. His research focuses on political behavior, public opinion, and cultural values, with particular attention to how values change over time and across generations. His methodological expertise includes survey methodology, age-period-cohort analysis, multilevel modeling, and experimental methods. He has published extensively in international scientific journals and is the author of the book The Rhythm of Modernization: How Values Change over Time (Brill, 2019). He is actively involved in several international research collaborations and networks. More information is available at www.raultormos.org.

Simona Guglielmi, PhD, is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan and a member of the spsTREND Lab. She has experience coordinating national and international research projects and developing public engagement initiatives and collaborations. Her teaching focuses on social research methods, survey research, and data analysis. Her research interests include social and political attitudes, youth transitions and political participation, ethnic inequalities, national identity, and value change. She is Italy’s co-representative to the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and a member of the EVS-WVS Italy Scientific Committee. Her work has been published in leading international journals and edited volumes.

Zeynep Mentesoglu Tardivo is a Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, within the YEP! Youth Equality Participation project (PI: Prof. Simona Guglielmi) and a member of the spsTREND Lab. She previously worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Milan within the START project (PI: Prof. Simona Guglielmi). Her research focuses on immigrant political participation, political socialisation and inequalities in political engagement. She specialises in the analysis of large-scale comparative survey data such as the European Social Survey (ESS) and the European Values Study (EVS). She is an active participant in international academic networks and conferences, both as a paper presenter and panel organizer.

Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir (Valencia, Spain). He teaches Social and Political Philosophy. His research focuses on the philosophy of human bonds, both from a metaphysical and an ethical perspective. In the area of applied ethics, he has concentrated on the ethics of migration and refugees.

Professor Pieter Francois is Professor of Cultural Evolution and Director of the Computational Humanities Lab, University of Oxford. At the Alan Turing Institute he is the lead of the resilient societies research group. He is the PI on multiple large digital humanities and digital social sciences grants, including the Founding Director of the Seshat Global History Databank.  His research focuses on the deep drivers of resilient and cohesive societies, including the role religion and religious tolerance plays. His work focuses on the interplay between institutions, values, and beliefs.