Rosália Guerreiro is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at ISCTE IUL where she teaches Landscape Analysis, Urban Design, Cartography, GIS and Space Syntax within the scientific areas of Geography and Urbanism. She completed a degree in Town and Country Planning (1994), University of Aveiro where she received a scholarship for the 5th year at University of the West of England - Bristol. From 1992 onwards she worked in several urban design and architecture studios in Aveiro and Oporto. She also worked as an urban designer for different municipalities. Rosália returned to Lisbon in 1997 to take an MSc in Urban Design at ISCTE IUL (2003). She subsequently studied for an FCT funded PhD in Architecture - specialty of Urban Design (completed 2011) at ISCTE. Rosália is a Researcher at CRIA - Environment, Sustainability and Ethnography (DASE) research group. Her research is anchored in the discipline of space syntax, which provides a scientific approach to studying buildings and cities as socio-spatial systems. Her expertise lies in applying space syntax methods to investigate placemaking - patterns of use and behavior in public spaces along with GIS tools and urban data.