Alon Helled is currently a postdoc fellow at the University of Turin in the field of the history of international relations, and a teaching assistant in Middle Eastern History of the University of Florence. He is also a teaching assistant in the political sociology and historical sociology and a fellow of the Norbert Elias Foundation and a member of the Italian Society of Political Science.

Anna Durnová is a Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna and holds the “Habilitation à diriger des recherches” diploma from SciencesPO in Paris. Until 2021, she worked as a senior researcher at the IHS in Vienna and is now Senior Fellow associated with IHS. Her research focuses on emotions as a nexus for studying social regulations and their institutions. The main interest of this work is to understand multiple tensions between citizens and institutions within current social and political controversies. She is a Faculty Fellow at the Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology. In 2024 Durnová was awarded the Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize in European Political Sociology.

Michael Orsini is Full Professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the School of Political Studies. He served as Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences from July 2016 to December 2019. From January 2016 to June 2016, he was Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at Vanderbilt University's Centre for Medicine, Health and Society. His main areas of research interest are in health politics and policy, and the role of social movements in policy processes. His substantive areas of interest include autism, HIV/AIDS and illnesses that affect marginalized people. Professor Orsini is currently completing a book manuscript on the role of emotions and stigma in three key policy fields.