Beatriz Labate. Social Anthropologist. Research Associate at the Institute of Medical Psychology at the Heidelberg University on issues related to psychoactive substances, drug policy, religion and rituals.

She has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, Brazil, and she is member of the Collaborative Research Center  (SFB-619)

She is also researcher with the Nucleus for Interdisciplinary Studies of Psychoactives (NEIP) and editor of its site (http://www.neip.info).  She is author, co-author and co-editor of seven books, two with English translations, and one journal special edition.

Her book A Reinvenção do Uso da Ayahuasca nos Centros Urbanos (Mercado de Letras, 2004) received the prize for Best Master’s Thesis in Social Sciences from the National Association for Graduate Studies in Social Science (ANPOCS) in 2000.