Ana Silva Fernandes (Porto, 1982). Architect and researcher, with postgraduate studies on architectural heritage, and a PhD thesis on policies for improvement of informal areas, focusing on African territories. 

She is nowadays a post-doctoral researcher on the impacts of the infrastructural network in the transformation of the territory in Mozambique, as well as on participatory policies for the improvement of deprived areas [FCT scholarship, ref. SFRH/BPD/121632/2016], hosted by Dinâmia’CET-IUL (PT) and CEDH-FAPF-UEM (MZ), as well as a member of the research project “Coast to Coast – Late Portuguese Infrastructural Development in Continental Africa (Angola and Mozambique): critical and historical analysis and postcolonial assessment” [FCT funding, ref. PTDC/ATP-AQI/0742/2014].

She is an Invited Assistant Professor at FAUP (the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, Portugal), teaching both at Masters level at PhD level, being also is a Collaborator of CEAU-FAUP (Porto, Portugal), where she has been working on housing policies and regional studies. 

She has multiple publications in books, international journals with peer-review and conference proceedings, as well as thesis supervisions and participations in national and international conferences.