Jean-Yves Marion is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Lorraine, researcher at LORIA, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. A former Director of LORIA (2013–2023), his research focuses on cybersecurity, with particular emphasis on malware analysis and detection, reverse engineering, offensive security, and malware ecosystems, including their links with disinformation campaigns. He has held several national scientific responsibilities in cybersecurity, including at CNRS and ANSSI, and serves on the Advisory Group of EC3 at Europol. He is also co-founder of the High Security Lab (LHS), an experimental cybersecurity research platform.

Professor Lisa Sugiura is Professor of Cybercrime and Gender at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Portsmouth. Her expertise is in online gender-based violence, and her research is at the intersection of technology, online harms, and violence against women. She has received research funding from the UK Home Office, Ofcom, and the National Cyber Centre (NCSC). Her projects include the role of technology in facilitating domestic abuse, misogynistic extremism in manosphere and incel communities, and assessing the drivers of perpetrators of online violence against women and girls and the effectiveness of digital media literacy interventions. She is the author and co-editor of The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women (Emerald), The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Violence and Technology, and Researching Incels: A Critical Feminist Intervention (Emerald).

Véronique Béchu studied in France and the United States in criminal sciences and comparative law, during which she obtained a D.E.A. as well as a university diploma before earning a Master’s degree in Policing and Human Rights from the University of Limerick (Ireland). In 2002, she joined the French National Police as an officer and pursued a professional career specialized in violence against minors, focusing primarily her expertise on combating the online sexual exploitation of minors. For the past ten years, she has collaborated with numerous foreign police forces and institutions. Her work is strongly rooted in an international dimension. She has represented France at EUROPOL and INTERPOL. A speaker and trainer, she published Derrière l’écran : combattre l’explosion de la pédocriminalité en ligne with Stock in 2024. In June 2025, she became Director of the e-Enfance/3018 Observatory, which fights against online harassment and digital violence affecting minors.