Eliana Sousa Santos is an architect, a researcher and an assistant professor of architecture. She was awarded the Fernando Távora Prize in 2017, and since then has been publishing her essays in the press. She is the co-author of "Primavera Tardia: Uma Viagem Pela Memória e Paisagem do Japão" (2021) a Finalist Book of the FAD Awards 2022 in the category of Thought and Critique. Her most recent book is "Paisaje pintoresco y entornos adecuados" (2023), was selected for publication in the 2021 international call for books by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Ediciones Asimétricas, and shortlisted for the FAD Awards 2024 in the category of Thought and Critique. She was the curator of the exhibition The Shape of Plain (Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon 2016/17), an associate project of the Lisbon Architecture Triennial 2016. She was a visiting postdoctoral research fellow at Yale University in 2013/14. She is a researcher at CES, University of Coimbra. She has a degree in architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon, a master degree from University of Coimbra and a PhD from the University of London. She has taught at ESAD.CR, Porto School of Architecture and is currently invited assistant professor at Dept. of Architecture of ISCTE in Lisbon.