Andrea Gruev-Vintila, PhD

Andreea VINTILA, PhD, is Associate professor of psychology at the University of Paris-Nanterre, a researcher with the Parisian Research Center for Social Psychology, an author, workshop leader and consultant on domestic abuse, and TEDx speaker. Her research focusses on the psychological and social foundations of violence (interpersonal, gender based, state, totalitarianism, terrorism). She carries out interdisciplinary work with other social scientists, frontliners, victims, and decision makers.

In the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks, Andreea won the first French national research grant to study violent radicalization processes. She headed the XTREAMIS international research network (Xenophobia, Radicalization in Europe, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, supported by the National Research Agency (2015-2017). She is the national coordinator for France for the MisMIE project (Misrecognizing Minorities in Europe: Challenges to Integration and Security, 2019-2021), and Identifying evidence-based methods to effectively combat discrimination of the Roma in the changing political climate of Europe (2018-2021), funded by DG JUSTICE of the European Commission. She coordinated two special issues of the Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale: CRISES (2010) and JUSTICE (2014). She contributed to the Domestic Violence working group set up by the French government in 2019, which resulted in changing the French law to acknowledge the traumatic impact of domestic violence on children and its massive impact on parental abilities. Andreea is fluent in 5 EU languages. Top 5 media appearances: FranceTVInfo, Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), Huffington Post, Slate.fr, The Conversation.

Sub-specialities:
Social psychology
Violence
State violence: totalitarianism
Interpersonal violence: violence against women and children
Terrorism