Biography

Catarina Almeida Marado (Coimbra, 1972) is an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (thematic line "Urban cultures, sociabilities and participation") and a Collaborating Researcher at the CEAACP - Centre for Studies in Archaeology, Arts and Heritage Sciences - University of Algarve hub. She is also an Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Algarve (since 2007) and a Visiting Professor at the ETSArquitectura, University of Seville in the Master's Degree in Architecture and Heritage (since 2009). Holding a degree in Architecture, she has postgraduate and technical training in several scientific fields: Architectural and Urban Rehabilitation, Cultural Heritage, Ecological Architecture, Urban Studies, and Territorial Planning. In 2003, she obtained the Diploma de Estudios Avanzados in Urbanism and Spatial Planning, and in 2007 she completed her PhD in Architecture at the University of Seville, supported by a research grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. With more than 20 years of teaching experience across all three higher education cycles (undergraduate, master's, and doctoral studies), she teaches a wide range of subjects in the fields of Cultural Heritage, History of Architecture, and History of Urbanism, both in Portugal and Spain. She has extensive research experience in applying diachronic, systemic, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Architecture and Built Heritage, and their relationships with the Urban and Social Environment, across different geographical and chronological contexts and through distinct scales of observation. Her work seeks to examine how different societies have shaped and perceived the built environment over time, with the aim of understanding and addressing, in a sustainable and collaborative way, the social, cultural, environmental, and economic challenges of the present and the future. Her research interests also focus on the History of Cultural Heritage and the Historical and Contemporary Processes of Heritage-making, as well as on the Integration of Collaborative Practices in the Contemporary Management of Cultural Heritage. She has carried out funded research in these areas throughout the different stages of her scientific career. As a result of her scientific activity, she has published more than fifty texts, acting as author and editor of several books and thematic issues of scientific journals, as well as author and co-author of national and international book chapters, articles in indexed scientific journals, conference proceedings papers, scientific reports, and science communication texts. She also has broad experience in outreach activities developed in collaboration with municipal authorities, museums, archives, cultural centres, and the media. She has participated in several national and international research projects in Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Belgium, serving as a team member, scientific consultant, and principal investigator. She is currently involved in the international project PERVIVERE - Del castillo al palacio and coordinates the project CONVENTUS - A New Perspective on the Convent of São José in Lagoa, which connects the study of convent architecture with collaborative practices in cultural heritage management.