She is an architect and a post-doctoral researcher at CHAM – Center for the Humanities, FCSH – NOVA University and Universidade dos Açores and PI of the project Vaulted South – Vernacular Vaulted Houses in the South of Portugal funded by the FCT (EXPL/ART-DAQ/0171/2021).

She has a Ph.D in Architecture by the Instituto Superior Técnico – University of Lisbon (2018), supported by a FCT Ph.D scholarship (2012-2016). Previously, she had professional experience collaborating in several architectural studios (2002-2010) in Portugal, Spain and Croatia with a scholarship by IAESTE (2004).

Since 2019, she has been teaching: as an invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture – University of Lisbon (2019-2020), as a lecture at FCSH – NOVA University (2019-2022) and as a teacher through the Erasmus + Teaching Mobility Program in Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Cabo Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe) and by Staff mobility in Europe (Belgium and Lithuania).

She has an active participation in heritage associations, being a member of ICOMOS Portugal, SPEHC and Centro da Terra. Recently, she is participating as post-doc fellow in two COST Actions: “Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice” and “Underground4Value”.

Her research focuses on the areas of History of Urbanism, Architecture and Vernacular Construction in Portugal and in the Mediterranean, with works published on these subjects.

CHAM – Centro de Humanidades |NOVA FCSH – Uaç
mafaldapacheco@fcsh.unl.pt