Team - IATSO 2025
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Reinhard Eher IATSO President Reinhard Eher was born in 1963 in Vienna, Austria. He is a psychiatrist and clinical psychotherapist. He is a co-founder of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO). He was its secretary general from 1998 to 2016 and president elect from 2016 to August 2021 and is now the IATSO president. Since 2001, he is the head of the Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual ffenders (FECVSO) in the Austrian Ministry of Justice in Vienna, Austria. He has written numerous original research papers and given numerous presentations on national and international conferences, mainly about sexual abusive behaviour and risk assessment in sexual offenders. He is professor for forensic psychotherapy at the Medical University in Ulm, Germany.
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Martin Rettenberger IATSO President elect Prof. Dr. Martin Rettenberger is the Director of the Centre for Criminology (Kriminologische Zentralstelle – KrimZ) in Wiesbaden, Germany, and is Professor at the Department of Psychology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany. Since 2021, he is President elect of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO) and editor of the open access journal “Sexual Offending: Theories, Research, and Prevention” (SOTRAP). He has published more than 250 research articles, book chapter, and books about risk assessment, sexual and violent offending, and about several other aspects and topics in criminology and forensic psychology.
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Sabrina Eberhaut Conference Organizing Committee Dr. Sabrina Eberhaut works as a clinical psychologist at the Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual Offenders (FECSVSO) of the Austrian Ministry of Justice in Vienna, Austria. She works for the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO) since 2015. Her fields of expertise are risk assessment, sexual deviances and sex offense related cognitive distortions. |
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Sonja Etzler Conference Organizing Committee Dr. Sonja Etzler works as researcher at the Goethe-University Frankfurt Main, Germany, and is in training as psychotherapist at the University Hospital Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. She has published research contributions about psychological diagnostics, risk assessment, and psychopathy and is interested in psychodynamic treatment approaches. |
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Filip Szumski Chair of the Local Organizing Committee Psychologist with specialization in psychosexology, lawyer. Assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan where he is the head of the Criminological and Forensic Psychology specialization. Member of the bord of International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO) and Polish Sexological Society (PTS). President of the PTS’ Forensic Sexology Section. His research interests focuses on sexual violence and the impact of the legal context on the professional functioning of psychologists. Expert witness in the field of sexual offending. Trained systemic therapist.
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Natalia Andrzejczyk Local Organizing Committee Psychologist in the certification process in clinical sexology of the Polish Sexological Society. During her doctoral studies in the field of online sexual offending and general pornography use at the Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Provides psycho-sexological support for clients in public centres in Poznan and works as an expert witness in the field of child sexual abuse offences. |
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Dominika Bartoszak Local Organizing Committee Psychologist in the certification process in clinical sexology of the Polish Sexological Society, special educator. Employed as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. In 2021, she graduated with the PhD in psychology defending her thesis entitled "Emotions in child sexual abuse offenders". She conducts research on sexual violence and works as an expert witness in the same field.
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