Maria José Magalhães is a full professor at the FPCEUP and a research member of CIEG and CIIE. She is the recipient of the award Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcelos – Research on Women’s Studies (1990). Maria José main field of research involves gender-based violence and femicide. She is a coordinator and member of several research projects related to these topics. The projects include the EU-funded Bystanders Project on developing bystander responses to sexual harassment among young people and the CEINAV project (Cultural Encounters in Interventions Against Violence). Maria José was also a member of the COST Action on Femicide across Europe and a scientific coordinator of the Observatory of Murdered Women (OMA-UMAR).