Tânia de Sousa Lemos is an architect and urban planner, holds a Master's Degree in Urban Studies and is currently a PhD student in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories  at ISCTE. She is also an Integrated Researcher (without Phd) at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte (Cities and Territories Research Group). She has worked at the Federal University of Tocantins (Brazil) in several research and extension projects in the fields of land regularization, participatory methods for architecture and urbanism and master plans.