Celina Manita is an Associate Professor and a Senior Research at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Port (FPCEUP) (https://www.fpce.up.pt/). She is, since 2004, the Director of GEAV – Gabinete de Estudos e de Atendimento a Agressores e Vítimas (Research and Intervention with Victims and Perpetrators Unit) of the University of Porto; she also is a therapist and an expert in psychological forensic assessment. She is the current Director of CCCD – Centro de Ciências do Comportamento Desviante (Centre for Deviant Behavioural Sciences) of FPCEUP. She has coordinated different research teams and been an investigator in several funded projects on topics such as domestic violence, rape, child sexual abuse, online grooming, child maltreatment; victimizations and its traumatic impact; psychological intervention with victims and perpetrators and the dynamics and processes of change; motivation to change; forensic assessment; judicial decision making and extra-legal variables that influence it; drug abuse and crime; sexual work, prostitution; among others. Always with a focus in the connection between psychology and criminal and family justice system, courts, police forces, social security and social support structures. She works as a counselor, a supervisor and a training specialist of victim and offenders support professionals, child protection technicians and judicial actors. She published several scientific papers, books and chapters on topics such as domestic violence, child sexual abuse, online grooming, child maltreatment; victimization and its traumatic impact; psychological intervention with victims and perpetrators and the dynamics and processes of change; forensic assessment; judicial decision making, among others. .