Johnny J. R. Fontaine, Ghent University, Belgium,Klaus R. Scherer, Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland,Cristiana Soriano, Senior researcher, Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Johnny Fontaine made his PhD on the cross-cultural comparability of the Schwartz Value Survey at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. He currently teaches psychological assessment and cross-cultural psychology at Ghent University in Belgium. Ever since his PhD he has worked from an assessment approach, with a particular focus on bias and equivalence in cross-cultural research. He is currently president-elect of the European Association for Psychological Assessment. He studies values, religiosity, acculturation, intelligence, and especially emotions from a cultural comparative perspective. His emotion research focuses on the structural representation of the emotion domain across cultural groups, on cross-cultural similarities and differences in self-conscious emotions, and on the assessment of emotional competence across cultural groups.

Klaus Scherer, born in 1943, studied economics and social sciences at the University of Cologne and the London School of Economics. Following his postgraduate studies in psychology, he obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970. After teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the University of Kiel, Germany, he was appointed, in 1973, full professor of social psychology at the University of Giessen, Germany. From 1985 to 2008, Klaus Scherer has been a full professor of psychology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and director of the Human Assessment Centre (Laboratoire d'Evaluation Psychologique). Since 2004 he is the Director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences at the University of Geneva. Apart from extensive theoretical work (Component Process Model), Scherer's research activities focus on different aspects of emotion and other affective states, in particular emotional expression and induction of emotion by music.

Cristina Soriano studied English philology at the University of Murcia (Spain), from which she also obtained a PhD in Linguistics. She further studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Hamburg University, where she specialized in cognitive linguistics. Since 2007 she has worked at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) as senior researcher on language and emotion. She conducts interdisciplinary research on cross-cultural emotion semantics, the metaphorical representation of concepts, the psycholinguistic investigation of conceptual metaphor, and the affective meaning of color. She is the executive officer of the GRID project and main researcher in a number of other studies on the linguistic representation of emotion concepts across cultures, with a special focus on conflict emotions.

Gülcan Akçalan, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Dr Itziar Alonso-Arbiol, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain
Professor Guglielmo Bellelli, Department of Psychology, University "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
Professor Pio Enrico Ricci Bitti, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Itlay
Hale Bolak Boratav, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Seger M. Breugelmans, Tilburg University, USA
Let Dillen, Ghent University, Belgium
Professor Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Johnny J. R. Fontaine, Vakgroep Personeelsbeleid, Arbeids- en Organisatiepsychologie Faculteit Psychologie en Pedagogische Wetenschappen Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Professor Dario Galati, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy
Hans Groenvynck, Ghent University, Belgium
Professor Dr. Ursula Hess, Humboldt-University,Germany
Ahalya Hejmad, University of Maryland, USA and Utkal University, India
Professor Svetlana V. Ionova, Volgograd Socio-Pedagogical University, Russia
Cara Jonker, North-West University, South Africa
Efthymia C. Kapnoula, University of Iowa, USA
Dr. Keiko Ishii, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, Japan
Liisi Kööts-Ausmees, Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Estonia
Spike W. S. Lee, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada
Manon Levesque, Omar Bongo University, Gabon
Professor Dr. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz, Poland
Deon Meiring, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Claudia Mejía Quijano, University of Antioquia, Medellin-Colombia
Lerato Mojaki North-West University, South Africa
Dr. Marcello Mortillaro, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Associate Professor Yu Niiya, Hosei University, Global and Interdisciplinary Studies, Japan
Dr Anna Ogarkova, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland
Ms. Yvette van Osch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Dr Penny Panagiotopoulou, Department of Primary Education, University of Patras, Greece
Professor Dr. Natalya Panasenko, University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovak Republic and Kiev National Linguistic University, Ukraine
Dr Irina Prihod'ko, Department, Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine
Associate Professor Athanassios Protopapas, Department of Philosophy & History of Science, University of Athens, Greece
Professor Dr. Annekathrin Schacht, University of Goettingen, Germany
Pio E. Ricci-Bitti, University of Bologna, Italy
Dr Anu Realo, Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Estonia
Prof. Klaus R. Scherer, Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences Centre, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Professor Viktor I. Shakhovskyy, Volgograd Socio-Pedagogical University, Russia
Vera Shuman, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Mari Siiroinen, Department of Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
Mia Silfver-Kuhalampi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Cristina Soriano University of Geneva, Switzerland
Diane Sunar, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Dr. Marina Terkourafi, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Professor Dr. Pascal Thibault, McGill University, Canada
Heli Tissari, Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland
Assistant Professor Eddie M. W. Tong National University of Singapore
Stephen J.E. Van den Eede, Ghent University, Belgium
Elke Veirman, Ghent University, Belgium
Professor Fons J. R. van de Vijver, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, North-West University, South Africa, and University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Yana Volkova, Volgograd Socio-Pedagogical University, Russia
Dr Paul A. Wilson University of Lódz, Poland
Sowan Wong City University of Hong Kong, Republic of China
Dr. Zhengdao Ye, The Australian National University
Dannii Yeung City University of Hong Kong, Republic of China
Professor Julia M. Zakharova, National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ukraine
Marcel Zeelenberg, Tilburg University, USA