Teresa Marat-Mendes is a Full Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at Iscte Lisbon University Institute, at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism and a senior researcher at DINÂMIA'CET. Her teaching activity includes lecturing on courses of Final Year Project of Architecture, Urbanism and Ecological Urbanism. Teresa's research activity is centered on the following areas: Architecture and Urbanism, Urban Morphology, Urban Metabolism, Urban Design, Urban Sustainability, Food Systems, Water and Agriculture in Urban Planning, and Portuguese Architecture and Urban Planning in XX and XXI centuries. She has participated and coordinated several research funded projects, with national and international research teams. She has published several articles, book chapters and books in well established publishers and within peer reviewed journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. She has supervised several MSc and PhD students and also Post Doc researchers in the following research topics: Urban Morphology, Architecture and Urbanism, Housing, History of Architecture and Urbanism Science, Urban Planning and Urban Sustainability. Teresa was a visiting professor and established scientific activity with several international university institutions, including Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Brisbane (Australia) and Florence (Italy). At DINÂMIA'CET research center she coordinated several research projects and a research team dedicated to the study of urban habitat and urban metabolism. Her research funded projects includes Project MEMO financed by FCT (2012-2015), Project SPLACH - Spatial Planning for Change, financed by COMPETE2020 and FCT, with European and National funds, Project HAT-DUT (2025-2028) (co-funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe) and the Observatory for the Lisbon Region transitions (Iscte -DINÂMIA'CET).

Teresa was awarded Women in Science 2019, for the field of Architecture, by Ciência Viva (http://www.cienciaviva.pt/mulheresnaciencia/index.asp). Her latest book 'Atlas of the Food System. Challenges for a Sustainable transition of the Lisbon Region' was published by Springer.