ANA RAQUEL CUNHA is a Landscape Architect. Presently, she is a Ph.D. student, in the Doctoral Program in Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecology (LINK), with an FCT scholarship (Ref. 2020.04824.BD). Graduated in 2010 from Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) of Universidade de Lisboa, and in 2014 obtained a Master's degree from the same institute. In 2014 joined the - LX GARDENS - Lisbon's Historic Gardens and Parks: Study and Landscape Heritage Inventory (PTDC / EAT-EAT / 110826/2009) team project coordinated by Prof. Ana Luísa Soares, as FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) Research Fellow, collaborating in the historical research and the tree inventory of the gardens and parks in study. In 2015, I was a Landscape Architect Trainee at AAJBA (Associação dos Amigos do Jardim Botânico da Ajuda), where performed tasks such as technical support of landscape architecture in the restoration and conservation works of the Jardim Botânico da Ajuda, financed by AAJBA. Ana Raquel was a Research Fellow at the ISA Herbarium, for 3 years (2017-2020) on the national Research Infrastructure "PORBIOTA Portuguese E-Infrastructure for Information and Research on Biodiversity" (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-022127), mobilising the biological collections of the institute [Herbarium João de Carvalho e Vasconcellos Collection; Living Collection of Botanical Park of Ajuda (PBTA); PORVID vaseclone Collection; and ISA Bacteria Collection (CBISA)] under the direction of Professor Pedro Arsénio (Herbarium Curator) and Dr. Rui Figueira (GBIF Portuguese Node Manager). Following all this work, and as a result of her interest in botany, she belongs to the team that is developing the content for the dedicated page to the Botanical Collection of Parque Botânico da Tapada da Ajuda; and since 2016 written periodically, in collaboration with Prof. Ana Luísa Soares, for Revista Jardins and Revista Bica, about botanical species. | MAIN SCIENTIFIC AREAS OF RESEARCH [Landscape Architecture; Landscape Architecture Project; Historic gardens research; Landscape Architecture restoration and conservation; Historic and Public gardens; Geographic Information System; Harmonization and standardisation of Biological Data; Digitisation of Herbarium specimens; Organization and management of data and image repository; Taxonomy and conservation of Vascular and Cultivated Plants (ex-situ); ]. | SOFTWARE SKILLS [AutoCAD 2010; Google SketchUp; ArcGis10; Adobe Photoshop; Specify v.6; OpenRefine; and Basic programming knowledge (HTML, CSS, ASP.net, JavaScript)].