Faculty Members

Markie Louise Christianson (L. C.) Twist (she/her/they/them), Ph.D. is an award-winning sexuality educator, sexologist, relationship therapist, author and international speaker. Dr. Twist is the Program Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Sex Therapy Program, and Professor in the Human Development and Family Studies Department and Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. […]

Maria Lucia Pop is a medical doctor, clinical psychologist, and specialist in Psychiatry. She has worked in Romania, Italy and since 2014 in Aalborg, Denmark. She is employed as a senior doctor at Sexological Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark. She is a member of the multidisciplinary team in the hospital´s Center for Gender Identity and

Dr. Lori Brotto is a Professor in the UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and a Registered Psychologist in Vancouver, Canada. She is the Executive Director of the Women’s Health Research Institute of BC located at BC Women’s Hospital. Dr. Brotto holds a Canada Research Chair in Women’s Sexual Health. She is the director of

Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a research appointment at the Institute for Brain Research, Universidad Veracruzana, in Xalapa, México. Dr Pfaus got interested in the neurobiology of sex at an early age. For over 30 years, he has conducted extensive research into the brain mechanisms of sexual arousal, desire, pleasure, and inhibition, working with

Jacqueline Kool [1963] studied social work and theology in the Netherlands. She was co-founder of and works as ambassador for Disability Studies in the Netherlands (www.disabilitystudies.nl). She publishes in the area of participation and representation of disability experience and disability studies in which she is also working as a consultant. She published e.g. the books

The work of Inge Blockmans (PhD) is driven by her belief that everyone can experience their body as a warm home and as a source of giving and receiving pleasure. Her qualitative doctoral research project explored the lived experiences of being a woman with sexual desires living in and with a body with spinal cord

Fernando Facio is a Professor of Urology at the FAMERP Medical School in Brazil. He is also currently the Medical Director Men’s Health Program. He is serving as Chair of Grants & Prizes at the International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM), and he is the Treasurer of the Latin American Sexual Medicine Society (SLAMS). Prof

Dr Paraskevi-Sofia (Evie) Kirana, Phd, MSc ECPS, received her Bachelor Degree in Psychology from Panteion University (1998), immediately continued with her postgraduate studies in Health Psychology (MSc) at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, and later completed her PhD in psychology at the University of Athens. She received additional training in the field

Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad (EEPB) is a physician, family therapist IAP, specialist in clinical sexology NACS, a professor in sexology UiA. EEPB is a well-known sexologist and transgifted person in Norway and to some degree also internationally. They (preferred pronoun singular) is author of several textbook and chapters on gender and sexology in general. The

Dominic Davies is Founder and CEO of Pink Therapy. He has worked as a psychotherapist, clinical sexologist and practice consultant for almost 40 years. Over the years Dominic has received a number of honours and awards for his pioneering work in the field of gender and sexuality. In 2015 he received the Practitioner award from