Mónica Ferrín is an associate professor at University of A Coruña (Spain). She worked previously at Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin and at the University of Zurich. Her main fields of research are public opinion, political participation and gender inequality in the public sphere. Hanspeter Kriesi is a part-time professor for Comparative Politics at the European University Institute in Florence. Previously, he held the Stein-Rokkan Chair at this university, as well as positions at the universities of Amsterdam, Geneva, and Zurich. 2017, he received the Mattei-Dogan Prize, and in 2022, honorary doctorates from the University of Lucerne and the Mid-Sweden University in Sundsvall. Together with colleagues from the LSE and the University of Milano he is currently working on an ERC Synergy project on the impact of the multiple crises on the resilience of the European Union.