Erick Janssen, IFSS / KU Leuven
WAS 2025 Scientific Program Committee Chair
Professor at the Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies
Director of IFSS & Program Director Master in Sexology
Department of Neurosciences, University of Leuven 
We acknowledge that the conference is being held the traditional lands of the Jagera and Turrbal people in Meanjin / Brisbane. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuing connection to land, water, and community and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. ASHM acknowledges Sovereignty in this country has never been ceded. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.