Susana Azevedo is an architect, a PhD student in architecture and an integrated researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-IUL the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal. Collaborates with the Iscte-Health mission team. Her research work has focused on the relationship between built environment and the health of children and older people. She is interested in contributing to the design of inclusive and humanised built environment, through evidence and research.

Before joining Iscte, she was a researcher at the Laboratório de Engenharia Civil and at the Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge (2010-2014). Collaborated in two (inter)disciplinary research projects: ENVIRH Environment and Health in children day care centres (PTDC/SAU-ESA/100275/2008); GERIA - Geriatric Study in Portugal on Health Effects of Air Quality in Elderly Care Centers (PTDC/SAU-SAP/116563/2010). In 2012 completes her Master's in Architecture, in the scientific area: Built Spaces and Health at the School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. Her work as a researcher has been funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).