Ana Adelaide Jorge Amorim de Esteves Martins (2116-90B1-5D38)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Adelaide Jorge Amorim de Esteves Martins

Ana Martins is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP–CEAU, Portugal). She graduated in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. She holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, specialisation in Land Use Planning and Environment at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, and a master’s degree in Methodologies of Intervention in Architectural Heritage obtained at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. During her research work, she has been developing conceptual and operational tools. In particular, she has been interested in themes related to governance, complexity, generativity, built environment, urban form, socio-spatial dynamics, and planning associated with urban design, always having a multidimensional vision.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ana Adelaide Jorge Amorim de Esteves Martins

Citation names

Martins, A.
Martins, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 2116-90B1-5D38
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7680-8810

Email addresses

amartins@arq.up.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

226057100 Ext.: 226 (Professional)

Addresses

Via Panorâmica Edgar Cardoso 215, 4150-755, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://ceau.arq.up.pt/en/about/researchers/ana-adelaide-esteves-martins (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies
Humanities - Arts - Architectural design

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
French	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/11/12 Concluded	Engenharia Civil (Doutoramento) Major in Planeamento do Território e Ambiente Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Resiliência Generativa: uma Ferramenta de Análise Espacial das Mudanças de um Sistema Urbano" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado
2009/07/23 Concluded	Metodologias de Intervenção no Património Arquitectónico (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal "A Arquitectura como Arte de Construir: Reutilização, Requalificação, ou Rearquitectura" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito Bom
2003/01/27 Concluded	Arquitectura (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal	15/20

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/06/30 - 2025/06/30	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal (...)

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/04/17 - Current	Integrated member of CEAU	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/07/01 - Current	Climate Adaptation for Older People Living in Vulnerable Urban Areas (CAOP). Designing a climate-responsive and community-based methodology PTDC/GES-URB/2038/2021 Post-doc Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2010/03/01 - 2014/03/01	Generative Resilience Framework to Analyse the Changing Process of Urban Systems / Resilient Territories: The Case of Ave Valley Region FCT SFRH/BD/74052/2010 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2009/03/02 - 2010/11/02	Sustainable Land Use Policies for Resilient Cities (SUPER-CITIES) URBAN/AUR/0002/2008 Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2019/09/09 - 2020/01/13	GEOARPAD - Patrimonio cultural de la Euroregión Galicia-Norte de Portugal: Valoración e Innovación 0358_GEOARPAD_1_E Colaborador Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte (CCDR-N), Portugal

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Pinho, Paulo; Oliveira, Vítor; Martins, Ana. "Evaluating Resilience in Planning". In Resilient thinking in urban planning, edited by Eraydin, A.; Tasan-Kok, T., 131-144. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013. Oliveira, Vítor; Martins, Ana; Cruz, Sara Santos. "Evaluating Urban Policies from a Resilience Perspective: The Case of Oporto". In Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning, edited by Eraydin, A.; Tasan-Kok, T., 161-177. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013.
Conference paper	Martins, Ana. "Desenho do espaço público responsivo ao stress climático: comunidade, envelhecimento, vulnerabilidade". Paper presented in STARBURSTING conference ‘Mais do que Casas’, Porto, 2025. Accepted Martins, Ana; Lameira, Gisela; Fernandes, Ana Silva; Ramos, Rui Jorge Garcia. "TAKE THE HEAT: adapting modern public space to accommodate older". Santiago, 2024. In press Martins, Ana; Lameira, Gisela; Fernandes, Ana Silva; Ramos, Rui Jorge Garcia. "Creating age-friendly public spaces in high heat vulnerable areas: the engagement of a spatial-morphological tool". Paper presented in International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF), São Paulo, 2024. In press Lameira, Gisela; Fernandes, Ana Silva; Ramos, Rui Jorge Garcia; Martins, Ana. "Vulnerabilidad, resiliencia y envejecimiento: Principios y acciones para espacios públicos responsivos en la zona oriental de Oporto, Portugal". Paper presented in ISUF-H 2023, Santiago, 2023. Published • https:// doi:10.7764/FADEU.LA.2023.02
Conference poster	Pinho, Paulo; Cruz, Sara Santos; Oliveira, Vítor; Ávila, Sílvia; Martins, Ana. "Sustainable Land Use Policies for Resilient Cities". 2010.
Journal article	Figueiredo, Teodora; Midão, Luís; Rocha, Pedro; Cruz, Sara; Lameira, Gisela; Conceição, Paulo; Ramos, Rui Jorge Garcia; et al. "The interplay between climate change and ageing: a systematic review of health indicators". Plos One 19 4 (2024): e0297116. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297116. Published

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/09/18	Creating age-friendly public spaces in high heat vulnerable areas: the engagement of a spatial-morphological tool	XXXI Conference of the ISUF 2024 ‘Future horizons for urban form: disruption, continuity, expansion, and reverberation’ Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
2024/05/07	The feasibility of adapting public spaces to accommodate older adults' needs	International Conference ‘Building Sustainable and Participatory Environments’ Rectory of the University of Porto
2023/12/07	Vulnerabilidad, resiliencia y envejecimiento: Principios y acciones para espacios públicos responsivos en la zona oriental de Oporto, Portugal	VII Congreso ISUF-H ‘Forma urbana para un buen vivir: miradas interdisciplinarias’ Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile)
2023/09/21	Climate Change, Ageing in Place and Vulnerable Areas	FOZCÔA 5th Edition Summer Course Faculty of Architecture - University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/07/02	Generative Resilience Framework to Analyse the Changing Process of Urban Systems	13ª Conferência do CITTA, ‘Planning for Human Scale Cities’. Faculty of Engineering - University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2015/07/16	Contribution of resilience thinking to the spatial planning of dispersed territories	29th Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning, ‘Definitive space : fuzzy responsibility’ Czech Technical University (Prague, Czech Republic)
2014/07/04	Resilience thinking and urban form: a contribution to the spatial analysis of the territory	21st ISUF ‘Our common future in Urban Morphology’ Faculty of Engineering - University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2010/07/08	Evaluating urban policies from a resilient perspective: the case of Oporto	2010 AESOP Annual Congress, ‘Space is Luxury’ Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (YTK); Aalto University School of Science and Technology (Helsinki, Finland)
2010/05/14	A resilient perspective in the evaluation of land-use policies	CITTA 3rd Annual Conference on Planning Research. BRINGING CITY FORM BACK INTO PLANNING Faculty of Engineering - University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/11/20 - 2023/11/20	Workshop ‘Viver o Espaço Público em São Roque da Lameira. Espaços Inclusivos, Amigos do Envelhecimento e Adaptados às Alterações Climáticas’, with project consultancy by Agnès Patuano (Wageginen University & Research, Netherlands) (2023/11/20 - 2023/11/20) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2015/09/25	CITTA 8th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON PLANNING RESEARCH / AESOP TG Public Spaces & Urban Cultures, ‘BECOMING LOCAL – Generative places, smart approaches, happy people’. Collaboration in logistics activities. (2015/09/25 - 2015/09/25)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014/07/03 - 2014/07/06	21st International Seminar on Urban Form – ISUF2014 / 21st International Seminar on Urban Form. Collaboration in logistics activities during conference days. (2014/07/03 - 2014/07/06)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2012/10/18 - 2012/10/22	45th ISOCARP International Congress ‘Low Carbon Cities’. Collaboration in logistics tasks during conference days. (2012/10/18 - 2012/10/22) Conference (Other)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/09/21 - 2023/09/21	Open class at Workshop Vila Nova de Foz Côa Workshop	Climate Change, Ageing in Place and Vulnerable Areas Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal