Herculano Cachinho holds a doctorate in Human Geography, a master's degree in Human Geography and Regional and Local Planning and a degree in Geography from the University of Lisbon. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon, and a researcher in the ZOE Group - Urban and Regional Dynamics and Policies, at the Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG). Among the positions he currently holds, he is coordinator of the 1st Cycle of Studies (Undergraduate Degrees), Chairman of the Ethics Committee and a member of IGOT's Scientific Council. He is also a member of the CEG's Board of Directors and co-coordinator of the CEG's ZOE - Urban and Regional Dynamics and Policies research group. Since the beginning of his career, he has divided his research into two main areas: a) the geography of retailing and consumption in an urban context; b) geographic education and active teaching methodologies. In the first field, the issues of the resilience of urban commercial systems are particularly relevant; time, temporalities and rhythms in the retail trade; the impact of shopping centres on the production and experience of the city; and regeneration anchored in commerce and consumption in close relation to new forms of urban governance. In the second field, research has focused on powerful knowledge and threshold concepts in geography and geography education, on designing meaningful teaching-learning experiences involving problem-solving and fieldwork, and on action research into problem-based learning methodology in higher education. The research carried out is framed by participation in various national and international projects and networks. The following projects stand out in terms of the former: (1) Phoenix - Urban Regeneration Led by Retailing and New Forms of Governance, (2) CHRONOPOTE ¿ Time-space Planning for Retail Planning for Resilient Cities ? New Means of Sustainable Planning in Societies of Consumption, (3) REPLACIS ¿ Retail Planning for Cities Sustainability, (4) LEARNING GOALS ¿ Strategy for the development of a national curriculum for Primary and Secondary Education, (5) School Failure and Dropout at the University of Lisbon, Scenarios and Pathways; and in the second level: (1) HERODOT II - European Network of Geography in Higher Education, (2) INLT ¿ International Network for Learning and Teaching in Geography, (3) PAN-PBL: Association of Problem-Based Learning and Active Learning Methodologies. In the field of teaching and training, he has lectured at various seminars, including Urban Geography, Geographies of Retail and Consumption, and the Human Geography Research Project. At postgraduate level, the seminars on Research Methodologies in Geography, Problem-Based Learning in Geography, Didactics of Geography and Trends in the Transformation of Cities and Regions stand out. Currently, 37 students have completed their postgraduate training under his pedagogical and scientific supervision and, in terms of scientific research, he has produced more than 100 titles including books, book chapters, articles in journals with scientific arbitration and articles in the proceedings of scientific events.