Sexual Dysfunction

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Chiara Simonelli is an Associate Professor in clinical sexology at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. She is a regular lecturer in the psychology and psychopathology of sexual behavior and also teaches the degree course in psychology.

EDUCATION:
Professor Simonelli graduated in 1975 in psychology and psychotherapy and from 1976-1987 she was a consultant in sexual dysfunction, vasectomy, assisted conception and sexual education in the schools within the Aied (Italian Association for Demographic Education) in Rome.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Professor Simonelli is a founding member and the President of the SISS (Italian Society of Scientific Sexology) and from 1986-1987 she was part of a multi-disciplinary group researching the psychological problems in AIDS sufferers.

Professor Simonelli has acted as a consultant for the television programme ‘Love and Sex: Instructions for use?’ and received the Culture Prize in 1989 for her book ‘Psychology and AIDS’. Professor Simonelli is the author of a variety of scientific publications and around 200 theoretical or experimental working papers, she is also the Vice President of FISS (Italian Federation of Scientific Sexology), a Member of the Advisory Board of WAS (World Association of Sexology) of the Executive Committee of EFS (European Federation of Sexology) and of IASR (International Academy of Sex Research).