Leonor Matos Silva, PhD in Architecture (2019) with a thesis about the teaching of architecture in its pre- vs post-revolutionary form (the Lisbon case) and the interplay between architecture school and its cultural milieu. Integrated Researcher of DINÂMIA'CET – University Institute of Lisbon. Co-PI of the funded R&D exploratory project “WomArchStruggle - Women Architects in Former Portuguese Colonial Africa…” and a former post-doctoral research fellow and researcher within the funded R&D project "MCMH - Middle-Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia". Member of the COST-Action "Making Young Researchers' Voices Heard for Gender Equality (VOICES), curated the international seminar "Gender Struggles in Architecture, Colonialism, and Housing" (Centro Cultural de Belém, 13.01.2024), and was responsible for coordinating the international conference "Optimistic Suburbia 2 - Middle-Class Large Housing Complexes" (University Institute of Lisbon, 16-19.06.2021).