Ana Guerreiro

Collaborator Researcher

Ana Guerreiro has a Ph.D. in Criminology with a FCT Fellowship (Ref.ª SFRH/BD/143202/2019) at FDUP - Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, through the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Justice (CIJ). She is an Assistant Professor at UMaia - University of Maia and an Invited Assistant Professor at FDUP - School of Criminology, University of Porto. Ana had also collaborated with the UPM - Military Polytechnic Unit (school year 2021-2022). She is currently the Director of the Research Unit in Criminology and Behavioral Sciences of the UMaia (UICCC/UMaia), a Full Member at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon (CIEG-ISCSP, UL), and a Collaborator Researcher at the Research Centre on Justice (CIJ). Her main research areas are gender violence, gender studies, female crime, organized and violent crime, and prevention policies. Ana is a member of the European Society of Criminology, the European Gender, Crime and Justice, the European Working group on Organizational Crime (EUROC), ESC Working Group on Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making, European Network on Gender and Violence and Portuguese Association of Criminology. She was Research Projects Manager at the School of Criminology of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (2018-2019) and Criminologist at UMAR (a Portuguese NGO), from 2014-2018. These activities brought her experience on several national and international projects. She also has several national and international publications in scientific journals, books and book chapters.