Sílvia Ávila De Sousa Email & Phone Number

Current position: Project Manager at the Agência de Energia do Porto (Porto Energy Agency); Integrated Member of the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment (CITTA); Co-founder and co-coordinator of the cross Thematic Area Societal and Climate Transitions at CITTA. Former Researcher of the Department of Civil Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (DEC-FEUP), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT); Former Member of the Board (Executive Secretary) at CITTA. Former Invited Assistant Professor of Territorial Planning and Project at FEUP. Education: Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Aveiro (2001); Specialization in European Spatial Planning from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (2001); Master in Environment, Planning and Urban Project from the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering of the University of Porto (2006); PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Porto (2011).Main research interests/skills: Climate adaptation and mitigation; energy; management of historic centres; urban resilience; smart shrinking solutions; evidence-based planning and urban policies; gentrification phenomena and overtourism; public value capture in shrinking cities and other shrinkage or non-growth contexts, child friendly cities, urban transitions.Main activities: Co-coordinator of the Portuguese team of the ERA-NET project 3S RECIPE Smart Shrinkage Solutions; member of the team of several research projects; member of the team and project manager of several urban development and detailed local plans, urban regeneration projects, sector studies, urban design projects and urban architecture projects; author and reviewer of scientific and technical publications; supervisor of doctoral and master theses.Other relevant information: Founding Member of the Portuguese Association of Urbanists (APU); Member of the Shrinking Cities International Research Network (SCiRN™); Member of the Management Committee of the Cost Action CA17125 Public Value Capture of Increasing Property Values (PUVACA); Member of the Management Committee of the Cost Action TU0803 Cities Regrowing Smaller - Fostering Knowledge on Regeneration Strategies in Shrinking Cities across Europe (CIRES); Copy-editor of the Newsletter of CITTA.

Listed skills include Research, Sustainable Development, Project Planning, Urban, and 11 others.