Andreea Gruev-Vintila is Associate Professor of social psychology (HDR) at the School of Social Sciences and Administration of the University Paris-Nanterre, Parisian Research Centre for Social Psychology. She conducts interdisciplinary research on the social psychological processes, impact and criminalization of violence and coercive control. She trains French judges on coercive control at the National School for the Judiciary. In addition to over thirty articles in international scientific journals, she is the author of the first publication in French on Coercive Control. Andreea contributed to the family violence working group of the French government (Grenelle Violences Conjugales, 2019), to a bill for children who are co-victims of domestic violence (2021), to the Coercive Control task-force of the Fondation des Femmes, and was the initiator, with Y. Muller-Lagarde, of the first article in French arguing for the criminalization of coercive control under French law.