Francesca is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is the director of the theme "Risk, crises and resilience" at the Agricola School for Sustainable Development. 

She is the lead coordinator of this special interest group.

Loïs is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University in Sweden.

He is a coordinator of this special interest group

Vittorio is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, in the Netherlands. He combines computational modeling with case studies to investigate emergent, self-organizing mechanisms by which multi-actor systems collectively absorb and adapt to shocks, thereby increasing their resilience.

He serves as a coordinator of this special interest group.