Alexandra Urbano is a doctoral candidate at FCSH Nova LISBOA of Musical Sciences-Ethnomusicology, supervised by Professora São José Côrte-Real. She is currently researching psychedelic trance and studying terminological aspects to understand relation between audible characteristics of melodic and rhythmic samples of psychedelic trance and fandom dynamics, involving fan behaviour in different parts of the world through a collaborative ethnography developed in festivals in India, Israel, Brazil, Mexico, USA, Europe, South Africa and Australia, where she performs as a Psytrance DJ and producer. Choosing to embark on this research, for being scientifically innovative within the transnational academic and social framework. From 2019-2021 Alexandra gained an internship from the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) - USA, with her co-advisor Professor Bernardo Attias, with whom Alexandra has worked assiduously in the organisation of the annual conference Curated Sound: DJ Culture on the edge. She has also contributed to the project "DJ Culture as Curation". At present this project is also co-supervised by Prof Hillegonda Rietveld, in which Alexandra is collaborating as a Visiting Scholar Research in the context of the Sonic Research Group at London South Bank University to support an investigation of psytrance in a technocultural context. Alexandra received her master degree from the FCSH Nova LISBOA of Musical Sciences-Ethnomusicology about the use of music in the Portuguese Colonial War in Cabinda, Angola (1970-74). She also has a degree in piano and music therapy, domains in which she maintains activity.