I am a researcher who applies emerging digital technologies within architecture to address societal challenges related to inclusion and justice in the built environment. I currently expand my scope on shared heritage in Africa to improve living conditions in former plantations. My vision is that architecture and the built environment should become meaningful to people. I see modern digital technology in architecture as an essential and effective means for innovative approaches.

I am an expert in digital technologies applied to architecture design and heritage, namely shape grammar design systems, virtual and augmented reality, and space syntax. I am also working on analysing the building environment, namely considering space perception to achieve a user-centred design and reduce segregation and lack of accessibility. 

I graduated in Architecture (FA.UTL 1998) and have a Ph.D. in Architecture (IST.UTL 2012) with the title “Transformation grammar-based methodology for housing rehabilitation: meeting contemporary functional and ICT requirements”.

Between 2017 and 2023, I was the director of the Information Sciences Technologies and Architecture Research Center (ISTAR-Iscte) and, between 2013 and 2016, the director of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism (DAU) and of the Integrated Master in Architecture at ISCTE. Since 2023, I have been an Associate Professor at the University of Antwerp in the Faculty of Design Sciences.

In the Department of Architecture and Urbanism I taught disciplines of Architectural Computer-Aided Design, Drawing, new technologies applied to Architecture and Research Methodologies. At the University of Antwerp, I teach design studios on the reuse of modernist buildings and space syntax methodology.

I have participated in national and international research projects and published my work in several journals. I review for numerous international peer-reviewed journals and conferences, as well as international and national research funding agencies.

Since the end of my graduation, I have collaborated with several architectural firms in Portugal and been a consultant for companies in the fields I do research.