Mafalda Esteves is a social psychologist and is currently a PhD student in Psychology at CIS/ISCTE-IUL where she is developing a thesis entitled ‘Invisible sexualities: intimate citizenship and psychosocial well-being in bisexuality’ (FCT scholarship). She has been a member of European projects such as Colourful Childhood: Empowering LGBTIQ children in vulnerable contexts to combat gender-based violence across Europe (2022-2024), ‘Diversity and Childhood - Changing social attitudes towards gender diversity in children across Europe’ (2019-2021) and ‘INTIMATE: Citizenship, Care and Choice: The Micropolitics of Intimacy in Southern Europe’ (2014-2019) (ERC St Grant) and ‘Diversity and Childhood - Changing social attitudes towards gender diversity in children across Europe’ (2019-2021). She is a member of the Saúde para Tod@s group (H4A-CIS/ISCTE-IUL), the Democracy, Justice and Human Rights thematic line (CES-UC) and is part of the coordination team of the Sexualities Research Group (GPS-CES) and the SHARP Talks - Sexuality, Health and Human Rights initiative. Her current research interests include critical approaches in Social Psychology, social movements and civic participation, mental health and social support networks, childhood and youth; childhood in vulnerable contexts; hate speech and sexual and reproductive rights.