She is a sister of the Company of Saint Teresa of Jesús and holds a doctorate in Spiritual Theology from the Pontifical University of Comillas. Her doctoral thesis explored the phenomenological, theological, and mystagogical approaches to Teresian mysticism. Her main lines of academic research and scholarly output focus on the fields of mystagogy, spiritual accompaniment, discernment-based leadership, and the historical figure of Teresa of Jesús, with a specialisation in disseminating her mystical experience. Institutionally, she divides her professional time between regular teaching duties at CITeS–University of the Mysticism of Ávila and active participation in the LiDE team responsible for the specialised training project in leadership and institutional discernment.

Prof. Dr Dina El Omari is Professor of Intercultural Religious Education at the Center for Islamic Theology in Münster (Germany). Since October 2019, she has also headed the project "The Ambiguity of Islamic-emancipatory Discourses in History and the Present" at the prestigious Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the same institution. In May 2021, she completed her official university habilitation with the doctoral thesis The Qur’anic Human Pair in Creation and Eschatology, published by Herder Verlag. Her areas of scholarly specialisation include Islamic feminism, gender relations, interreligious dialogue, and feminist exegesis of the Qur’an. Among her recent publications, her 2025 contribution to the international series Islam & Gender is particularly notable.

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Prof. Dr Serena Noceti is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of Tuscany and teaches courses at other theology faculties. She coordinates the Research Institute on the “Theology of Ministries” at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy (Florence). A founding member of the Coordinamento Teologhe Italiane, she served as Vice-President of the Italian Theological Association (2011–2019). Her publications are devoted to ecclesiology, the theology of ministries, gender theology, and synodality. Together with Roberto Repole, she is editor of the nine-volume Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, EDB, Bologna, 2014–2022.

She is a medical doctor and surgeon, a specialist in psychiatry and a PhD candidate in forensic psychopathology. She also holds a Master’s degree in the Humanities, a Bachelor’s degree in Theology and is currently studying for a Master’s degree in Dogmatic Theology – a background that enables her to integrate clinical practice with ethical and ecclesiastical reflection. At an institutional level, she works as Academic Director of CEPROME Latin America, coordinating specialised university training programmes aimed at preventing abuse within the Church. Since 2022, she has been an official member of the Holy See’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, where she contributes her clinical and theological expertise to the development of safeguarding policies and a culture of care within religious institutions.

She is a senior lecturer in Theology at the Pontifical University of Comillas (Spain), the academic institution where she obtained her PhD in Dogmatic and Fundamental Theology. Her international research profile includes specialised research stays at the universities of Freiburg and Eichstätt in Germany, as well as in Metz, France. Within the institutional structure of Comillas, she serves as coordinator of the Meister Eckhart Ibero-American Circle and leads the research group entitled ‘Meister Eckhart in His Context, Impact and Relevance Today: Mysticism, Philosophy and Spirituality’. She has carried out extensive work in disseminating her research through academic articles and seminal monographs such as German Mystical Theology (2015), God Within You (2017) and her institutional reference work, Knowing God: Beguines, Teachers and Mystics in the Middle Ages (2026).

A woman consecrated in the ordo virginum of the Diocese of Milan (Italy), she works in the field of education as a teacher of religious education at upper secondary level. She has a solid academic background, having obtained a Licentiate in Fundamental Theology from the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy. She is also an institutional member of the Coordinamento Teologhe Italiane (Association of Italian Women Theologians). Her research has focused on the history of women and access to the female diaconate. She published her thesis Le antiche diaconesse nella storiografia del XX secolo (2004) and co-edited the work Donne diacono? La posta in gioco (2016). In her most recent monograph, Olimpia diacona, she analyses historical models of ministerial practice aimed at the edification of the Church, drawing on the Gospel.

Prof. Dr Muers is Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom), having previously built a strong teaching and research career with posts at the universities of Leeds and Exeter. Her academic profile focuses primarily on research into contemporary Quaker thought and the development of trends within feminist theology. Among her high-impact publications, her most recent monograph, On the Voices, Contexts and Tasks of Theology: Experiments in Quaker and Feminist Thought (2025), stands out. She also plays a key role in academic publishing as co-editor of the fourth edition of the classic textbook Ford’s The Modern Theologians (2024). At the ecumenical institutional level, she is a member of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches.

Dr Susan Abraham is Professor of Theology and Postcolonial Cultures, Vicepresident of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at the Pacific School of Religion. She is the author of Identity, Ethics, and Nonviolence in Postcolonial Theory: A Rahnerian Theological Assessment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), co-editor of Shoulder to Shoulder: Frontiers in Catholic Feminist Theology (Fortress, 2009), Blessed are Those Who Mourn: Depression, Anxiety, and Pain on the Path of an Incarnational Spirituality (Marymount Press, 2020) and numerous essays and articles in anthologies of contemporary theology and peer reviewed journals. She is also the President of the Board of Editors of Concilium: An International Journal of Theology and has recently held the presidency of the prestigious Catholic Theological Society of America.

A Sister of the Sacred Heart, she holds a degree in Journalism and a degree in Biblical Theology. She obtained her PhD in Spiritual Theology after defending her thesis on Madeleine Delbrêl at Loyola University (Faculty of Theology, Granada), an academic institution where she currently serves as a senior lecturer in Spirituality. Her professional work combines teaching in university classrooms with extensive international activity, delivering theological lectures and leading retreats. She has an outstanding track record in the publishing world of contemporary spiritual literature and the mysticism of feminine closeness, having published widely read books such as Ungidas (2011), Madeleine Delbrêl, a Mystic of Closeness (2019), Miróforas (2020) and her most recent monograph, Fragile Happiness (2026).

Professor and reserarcher at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, she holds a PhD in New Testament and Christian Origins. Until recently, she has also served as director of the Master’s programme in Theology and the Contemporary World in the same institution. At the international level, she is a member of ATE and serves as coordinator of the Spanish group of the European Association of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR) and is the coordinating editor of the ESWTR Journal. Her main areas of work and specialised research encompass feminist hermeneutics, the analysis of processes of social memory in the origins of Christianity and trauma theologies. She has numerous publications in these fields, including the edited volume Genealogies of Trauma (2022).

She is a feminist theologian, researcher and independent trainer specialising in the intersections of gender, sexuality, spirituality and ecology. During her academic career, she graduated with a Master’s degree from the University of Kerala, obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Systematic Theology from the Pontifical University of Comillas in Madrid, and was awarded a PhD in Christian Studies by the University of Madras (India), with a particular focus on feminist theology. She has held senior positions within professional bodies, such as national coordinator of the Indian Christian Women’s Movement (ICWM). She is also actively involved in organisations such as the Theological Association of India and the international network Ecclesia of Women in Asia. She is the author of the book Persisting Patriarchy (2019) and editor of the recent volume Ecclesia of Women as Synodal Third Space (2026).

She is professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (AMU), Poland, Faculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies. Historian, Germanist and translator. Her areas of research encompass cultural and religious history as a research discipline, religions as an integral part of cultures, religiosity in totalitarian systems, the history and present state of Protestantism in Europe, women and the Reformation, Jews in German-speaking regions, and the life and work of Edith Stein, all topics in which she has published extensively. Member of the ESWTR since 2002, she is the recipient of the 2024 Edith Stein Prize and the has received the Medal for National Education in 2026. She is member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession (Lutheran) in Poland.

Director of the ‘Cátedra de Teología Feminista Carmen Montull Vallés’, she is professor of Feminist Theology at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. She holds a degree in theology from the Universidad Iberoamericana and a master’s degree in education from the Universidad del Desarrollo Empresarial y Pedagógico. She has studied philosophy at the Universidad Pontificia de México and medicine at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her main areas of research include Latin American feminist theologies and spiritualities in response to violence and injustice within contexts of resistance in Mexico and Latin America. For over 20 years, she has specialised in supporting church, educational and community processes with a focus on gender, human rights, diversity and peace.

She is member of the Congregatio Jesu. After completing her higher education in Catholic Theology and German Philology, she formally joined her congregation in Bamberg in 1980. Throughout her professional career, she has served as a school chaplain and has been actively involved in the spirituality department of the Archdiocese of Bamberg. As a researcher, she is noted for her specialisation in the founding history of the Congregatio Jesu and the study of Mary Ward’s spirituality, having published the seminal monograph In der Gegenwart Gottes (2000) and edited the four-volume critical collection of original textual sources (2007). She currently resides in Munich, where she carries out governance duties, collaborating in the leadership of her institutional province.

Yael Cobano is a lawyer by training, with a degree in Law and a specialisation in International Conflict Resolution, as well as practising professionally as a peace observer. Her institutional career in the field of religious studies is notable for the founding of the Reform Jewish Community of Madrid, Or Hadash, a community space dedicated to education and spiritual guidance. In 2025, following an extensive period of formal study, she achieved an unprecedented historical milestone by being officially ordained as a rabbi, thereby becoming, institutionally speaking, the first woman to receive a Reform rabbinical ordination in the history of Spain after centuries without such an ordination on the Iberian Peninsula. Her pastoral and theological work focuses on linking the study of institutional sacred texts with contemporary ethical community action.