Cristiana Vale Pires, MSc and PhD, is a researcher and lecturer collaborating at the Research Centre for Human Development of the Faculty of Education Psychology of the Catholic University of Portugal. She is also a founding member at Kosmicare, coordinating community-based projects promoting harm reduction, care and gender-mainstreaming in nightlife environments. She has vast experience in collaborating and coordinating European and national research and community-based projects (including the project Sexism Free Night). Cristiana collaborates also as a consultant and external expert at EMCDDA and she is also a member at NEWNET, Drinking Studies and at the International Night Studies Network.