Research

Current research interests

Cultural heritage designation, protection, and management

Participatory Cultural Heritage management pratices

History of Cultural Heritage and heritagization processes

Adaptive reuse of Built Heritage

The urban dimension of monastic architecture from a comparative perspective

Research Projects

2023 - 2025 - "CONVENTUS - Novos olhares sobre o edifício do antigo Convento de São José em Lagoa", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Município de Lagoa.
    Project Partnership:
              - Centro de Estudos em Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património, Polo - Universidade do Algarve
              - Município de Lagoa

2023 - 2025 - "Del castillo al palacio: transformación, habitabilidad y pervivencia de la fortificación señorial", coordinated by Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio, sponsored by Agencia Estatal de Conocimiento, España.

2020 - 2020 - "Fortificaciones señoriales del suroeste: la huella documental", coordinated by Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio, sponsored by Universidad de Huelva.

2019 - 2020 - "FRH - Inform", coordinated by , sponsored by Future for Religious Heritage.

2018 - 2019 - "La città medievale, la città dei frati. /Medieval City, the city of friars", coordinated by Silvia Beltramo e Gianmario Guidarelli , sponsored by AISU-Italian Association of Urban History .

2016 - 2016 - "Caracterización urbano patrimonial y modelo turístico cultural en ciudades medias", coordinated by Maria Teresa Pérez Cano , sponsored by Universidad de Sevilla (PP2015-5002).

2013 - 2015 - "Da cidade sacra à cidade laica. A extinção das ordens religiosas e as dinâmicas de transformação urbana na Lisboa do século XIX.", coordinated by Raquel Henriques da Silva, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

2012-03-01 - 2018-02-28 - "Sistemas urbanísticos portugueses de matriz conventual", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

Networks

ACHS - Association of Critical Heritage Studies

AISU-Italian Association of Urban History

FRH - Future for Religious Heritage

ICOMOS Portugal

In_Scit - International network Small Cities in Time

PNUM - Portuguese Network of Urban Morphology