Florin is professor at the Department of Psychology at West University of Timisoara and also the principal investigator and the team leader for the Romanian research group. His key expertise lies in personality psychology and evidence-based interventions, including conducting online and onsite randomized trials. He has served as principal investigator and/or mentor / senior researcher in more than 10 national and international grants. Currently, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Personality Psychology and an Editorial Board member for the European Journal of Personality and for Personality Science.

I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Experimental Social Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. I obtained my PhD in Social Psychology at Georgia State University, USA in 2010. Before joining Queen’s in 2016, I was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University, USA and a Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. My research focuses on understanding and reducing intergroup biases, with a specific focus on gender biases in organizational and academic contexts. In my research I focus on the interplay between social cognition and nonverbal behavior. I tend to investigate these questions in consequential organizational interactions such as job interviews, negotiations, and leadership tasks, with the ultimate goal of understanding and reducing inequalities in organizational contexts and leadership. Recently, I have also become interested in understanding why and when people react negatively to diversity in organizational contexts. For example, my current research, funded by an EPSRC Inclusion Matters grant, seeks to understand and reduce potentially negative attitudes towards gender equality initiatives in STEM fields. My interest and expertise in designing and evaluating interventions to reduce biases has led me to participate in the current project aimed at increasing the inclusion of the LGBT community in Romania, my home country. Within the project, I am leading on developing and testing an online intervention tool designed to reduce teachers’ level of bias towards LGBT persons and establish means to confront social exclusion behaviors in students. Besides research, I am leading the gender quality initiative (Athena SWAN) in my department and teaching Social Psychology and Psychology of Gender at the undergraduate level. When I am not working, I enjoy spending time with my twin daughters, running and yoga, and exploring the green beauty of Ireland.

Bogdan is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, West University of Timisoara. He completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (2009), where he also completed a postdoctoral program (2010-2012). During his doctoral studies he received a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Virginia, USA (2007-2008), and during his postdoctoral studies he was a visiting researcher at Linkoping University, Sweden (February-March 2012). Bogdan’s research interests centers around evidence-based practices in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) as he investigates new ways to improve mental health using the Internet. To date, Bogdan coordinated a number of online interventions for affective and anxiety disorders, trying to capitalize on various transdiagnostic processes (https://e-cbt.ro/en/). As a member of the current project Bogdan coordinates the Work Package 3 (WP3). Together with his team Bogdan is responsible for developing, testing and implementing a prevention program specifically design to accommodate the needs and improve the life quality of volunteer LGBT participants. The prevention program is based on the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) framework that includes an ACCEPTANCE component (of things that cannot be changed) and a COMMITMENT component (of changing things that can be changed). The program will be delivered online and will address only subclinical symptoms, being designed to preclude the eventual development of future pathologies and improve the life quality for the end-users

Nastasia Sălăgean obtained her Doctorate Degree from West University of Timișoara in 2018. Her interests until now have been in implicit cognitions and depression. Her experience in research projects include the development of an online transdiagnostic program for treating depression and anxiety (PsiTAD), as well developing techniques to change implicit cognitions. More recently, her focus has shifted towards the mechanisms behind discrimination, and factors associated with prejudice against the LGBT community. Her post-doctoral research project looks at right wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and fundamentalism, as factors associated with anti-LGBT sentiment.

Andreea is involved in the development of a prevention intervention program for LGBT people at risk of developing mental health problems and the improvement of the quality of life among adult LGBT through the use of this intervention tool. Andreea is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist of cognitive-behavioral orientation. Her research interests are focused on the impact of online therapy compared to that of the classic "face-to-face" therapy. This is why in her doctoral thesis, one of the studies was centered on the implementation of the largest online therapy program in Romania, called Recovery (https://e-cbt.ro/program/recovery/). The program was designed for people with symptoms that are characteristic for anxiety and depression. But at the same time, the program intended to improve some self parameters, such as self-compassion or self-acceptance. Overall, this project helped the enrolled participants (N=284) to improve their emotional state of mind and their quality of life.

Norman Anderssen (Department of Psychosocial Science at University of Bergen; Research Unit for General Practice, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Norway) is team leader for the Norwegian research group and leader of WP1. His key expertise lies in documenting and assessing living conditions in gender- and sexual minority populations, and investigating public attitudes towards these groups, measuring a range of attitudinal outcomes such as attitudes towards legal rights, and attitudes towards same-sex parenting. In 2011-2013 he was the leader of a national investigation into living conditions of LGB-persons. He has conducted several surveys on attitudes towards LGBT-persons in Norway, including two national representative surveys (2008 and 2013), and a longitudinal attitude study amon young adults. Currently, he leads a multimethod cross disciplinary national study of living conditions among LGBT-persons in Norway.

Guy is Professor (Full) in Department of Psychosocial Science at University of Bergan). His research is predominantly in the domain of workplace bullying, well-being at work, psychosocial factors, risk control and leadership. He is also strongly interested in scale development and latent class modelling.