Agustin Cocola-Gant (AA11-347A-AE22)

Curriculum Vitae

Agustin Cocola-Gant

I am employed as an Auxiliar Researcher (FCT CEEC) at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon. Before moving to Lisbon I was Marie Curie Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Leeds. I hold a PhD in Human Geography (Cardiff University) and a PhD in Art History (University of Barcelona). My research lies at the intersection of urban and tourism studies. I am an established expert on short-term rentals, tourism-led gentrification and how digital platforms such as Airbnb are restructuring local housing markets. My work has been published in leading international journals such as Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A, Population, Space and Place, Cities, Geoforum and Tourism Management Perspectives, among others; In terms of funding and leadership, I have demonstrated an outstanding ability to obtain competitive research grants as Principal Investigator and Lead Partner. In the past 4 years I received 650,000 euros in research funding from both the European Commission Horizon 2020 program and the FCT. At the University of Lisbon I have led two projects, coordinating a team of 12 colleagues, including the supervision of three post-doctoral researchers. Currently, I supervise 8 PhD students on the fields of tourism mobilities, short-term rentals, and urban change. My aim is to implement policy-oriented research and I have obtained significant impact with non-academic sectors, including policy makers and the media.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Agustin Cocola-Gant

Citation names

Cocola-Gant, Agustín

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: AA11-347A-AE22
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3395-4233
Researcher Id: AAA-1114-2021
Scopus Author Id: 56899013300

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies

Education

	Degree	Classification
2018/02/08 Concluded	Human Geography (Doctor of Philosophy) Cardiff School of Planning and Geography, United Kingdom "Struggling with the leisure class. Tourism, gentrification and displacement" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Passed with no corrections
2010/11/05 Concluded	Art History (University of Barcelona) (Doctor) Universitat de Barcelona, Spain "El Barrio Gótico de Barcelona. Planificación del Pasado e Imagen de Marca." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	European Doctor. Cum Laude.
2005/06/30 Concluded	Research in Urban and Heritage Studies (University of Barcelona) (DEA) Universitat de Barcelona, Spain "La Regeneración del Centro Histórico de Barcelona" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Cum Laude
2003/06/30 Concluded	Art History (University of Seville) (Bachelor) Universidad de Sevilla, Spain "La Tutela del Patrimonio Histórico en Andalucía" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Excellent. Prize Best Student

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2014/12/01 - 2019/04/30	Tourism-driven gentrification SFRH/BPD/93008/2013 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023 - 2029	The platform economy, mobile populations, and the rise of a flexible rental market 2022.00929.CEECIND Principal investigator Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal	Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Laboratório para a Sustentabilidade do Uso da Terra e dos Serviços dos Ecossistemas LA/P/0092/2020 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/09/30	SMARTDEST: Cities as mobility hubs: tackling social exclusion through 'smart' citizen engagement 870753 Principal investigator Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal	European Commission Concluded
2021 - 2023/04/30	POLIS: Short-term rentals and housing financialization H2020-MSCA-IF-2019. ID: 891785 Principal investigator University of Leeds, United Kingdom	Concluded
2018/10 - 2022/09/30	SMARTOUR: Tourism, holiday rentals and rehabilitation PTDC/GES-URB/30551/2017 Principal investigator Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30	HOPES - Perspetivas e lutas em torno da habitação. Movimentos, políticas e dinâmicas residenciais em e para além de Lisboa PTDC/GES-URB/28826/2017 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2018/01/01 - 2020/01/30	Tourism and Performativity of Local Identity: Nation and Region from a Postcolonial and Gender Perspective HAR2017-83005-R Researcher	Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Centro de Estudos Geográficos - Universidade de Lisboa UID/GEO/00295/2019 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016/07/01 - 2019/12/31	Viver em Tempos Financeiros: Habitação e Produção de Espaço no Portugal Democrático PTDC/ATP-GEO/2362/2014 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016/04 - 2019/03	FINHABIT: Inhabiting in Financial Times. Housing and the Production of Space in Democratic Portugal PTDC/ATP-GEO/2362/2014 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016/03/01 - 2019/02/28	AGORA: Encounters between the city and arts: exploring new urbanities PTDC/ATP-GEO/3208/2014 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Cocola-Gant, Agustin. El Barrio Gótico de Barcelona. Planificación del Pasado e Imagen de Marca. Barcelona: Madroño. 2014. Published
Book chapter	Buhr, Franz; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Buhr, F, & Cocola-Gant, A (2024). Tourism mobilities and urban change: geographies of transnational gentrification.". In New Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies, edited by Wilson, Julie; Müller, D. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2024. In press Franz Buhr; Agustín Cocola-Gant. "Tourism Mobilities and Urban Change". 2024. 10.4324/9781003286301-37 Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Gago, Ana; Jover, Jaime. "Tourism, gentrification and neighbourhood change: an analytical framework. Reflections from Southern European cities". In The Overtourism Debate. NIMBY, nuisance, commodification, edited by Oskam, Jeroen, 121-135. Emerald, 2020. Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Tourism, simulacra and architectural reconstruction: selling an idealised past". In Tourism fictions, simulacra and virtualities, edited by Gravari-Barbas, M; Graburn, M; Staszak, N. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2019. Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Gentrification and displacement: urban inequality in cities of late capitalism". In Handbook of Urban Geography, edited by Schwanen, Tim; Van Kempen, R, 297-310. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. Published • 10.4337/9781785364600.00030 Gago, Ana; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "O alojamento local e a gentrificação turística em Alfama, Lisboa". In A nova questão da habitação em Portugal. Uma abordagem da economia política, edited by Cordeiro Santos, Ana, 143-170. Actual, 2019. Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Gentrificación turística". In Turistificación global. Estudios críticos en turismo, edited by Cañada, E; Murray, I, 291-308. Barcelona: Icaria, 2019. Palou Rubio, Saida; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Barcelona Cosmopolita. Gènesi i planejament de la ciutat turística". In Barcelona Cosmopolita, 5-39. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2019. Published Malet-Calvo, Daniel; Gago, Ana; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Turismo, negocio inmobiliario y movimientos de resistencia en Lisboa, Portugal". In Ciudad de vacaciones., edited by Milano, C; Mansilla, J., 121-153. Barcelona, Spain: Polen, 2018. Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Tourism gentrification". In Handbook of Gentrification Studies, edited by Lees, L; Phillips, M, 281-293. Edward Elgar, 2018. Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "O capitalismo imobiliário e a crise da habitação em Lisboa". In A cidade em reconstrução. Leitura críticas, 2018-2018, edited by Carmo, A; Ascensão, E; Estevens, A, 240-248. Lisboa: Le Monde Diplomatique, 2018. Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Christine Boyer". In Key Thinkers on Cities, edited by Koch, R.; Latham, A, 45-50. London: SAGE, 2017. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "La producción de Barcelona como espacio de consumo. Gentrificación, turismo y lucha de clases". In Cartografía de la ciudad capitalista. Transformación urbana y conflicto social en el Estado Español, edited by GEA La Corrala, 31-56. Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2016. Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Turismo y promoción urbana en la construcción del Barrio Gótico". In Destinació BCN. Història del turisme a la ciutat de Barcelona, 204-213. Barcelona: Efadós, 2016. Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Monuments and urban stage design in Mussolini's Rome". In A psycho-geographic guide of Rome, edited by Espada, C.; Contreras, C, 39-47. Madrid: AECID, 2013.
Conference abstract	Larrabure, Sara; Queirós, Margarida; Cocola-Gant, Agustín; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo. "Turistificação através de lentes de género: em busca por cidades turísticas inclusivas". Paper presented in XIV Congresso da Geografia Portuguesa, Lisboa, 2023. Accepted Larrabure, Sara; Cocola-Gant, Agustín; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Queirós, Margarida. "The incorporation of gender in tourism research: a bibliometric review between 2010 and 2021". Paper presented in DSOTT'023-Diversity & Sustainability: opportunities and threats to tourism, Lisboa, 2023. Accepted Larrabure, Sara; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Queirós, Margarida; Cocola-Gant, Agustín. "The gender perspective in tourism research: a systematic literature review over the 2016-21 period". Paper presented in UGI-IGU Centennial Congress Paris 2022 «Le temps des géographes / Time for geographers», Paris, 2022. Accepted Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Larrabure, Sara; Buhr, Franz; Cocola-Gant, Agustín. "Analyzing the commercial dynamics arising from gentrification in Misericórdia parish, in Lisbon's historic center". Paper presented in UGI-IGU Centennial Congress Paris 2022 «Le temps des géographes / Time for geographers», Paris, 2022. Accepted Buhr, Franz; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Larrabure, Sara; Cocola-Gant, Agustín. "The infrastructural production of mobile lifestyles: specialty coffee shops as mobility hubs in Lisbon". Paper presented in RC21 Conference ¿Sensing and Shaping the City¿, Antwerpen, 2021. Published Larrabure, Sara; Buhr, Franz; Cocola-Gant, Agustín; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo. "Mobilidades turísticas e dinâmicas comerciais no centro histórico de Lisboa. O caso da freguesia da Misericórdia". Paper presented in XIII Congresso da Geografia Portuguesa, Coimbra, 2021. Accepted
Conference paper	Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Alojamiento turístico y desplazamiento de población". Paper presented in Contested-Cities, Madrid, 2016. Published Lopez-Gay, Antonio; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Cambios demográficos en entornos urbanos bajo presión turística: el caso del barri gòtic de Barcelona". Paper presented in XV Congreso de la Población Española, Fuerteventura, 2016. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Tourism and commercial gentrification". Paper presented in RC21 International Conference. The ideal city. Between myth and reality., Urbino, 2015. Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "La revalorización del gótico y su influencia en el modernismo. Historiografía y restauración en Barcelona". Paper presented in CDF International Conference, 2013. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "City marketing, tourism and postmodern architecture in Barcelona. Some social consequences". Paper presented in TOURBANISM: 6th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism, 2012.
Edited book	Palou Rubio, Saida; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. Barcelona Cosmopolita. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona. 2019. Published
Journal article	Agustín Cocola-Gant; Daniel Malet Calvo. "The Platformization of Student Housing and the Rise of Mid-Term Rentals. The Case of Uniplaces in Lisbon". Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12560. 10.1111/tesg.12560 Ana Estevens; Agustín Cocola-Gant; Antonio López-Gay; Fabiana Pavel. "The role of the state in the touristification of Lisbon". Cities (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104275. 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104275 Jaime Jover; Agustín Cocola-Gant. "The Political Economy of Housing Investment in the Short-Term Rental Market: Insights from Urban Portugal". Antipode (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12881. 10.1111/anti.12881 Agustín Cocola-Gant. "Place-based displacement: Touristification and neighborhood change". Geoforum 138 (2023): 103665-103665. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.103665. 10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.103665 Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, Myrto; Tulumello, Simone; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Digital mediated short-term rentals in the (post-) pandemic city". Digital Geography and Society 3 (2022): 100028-100028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2022.100028. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.diggeo.2022.100028 Cocola-Gant, Agustín; Hof, Angela; Smigiel, Christian; Yrigoy, Ismael. "Short-term rentals as a new urban frontier – evidence from European cities". Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53 7 (2021): 1601-1608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x211042634. Published • 10.1177/0308518x211042634 Cocola-Gant, Agustín; Jover, Jaime; Carvalho, Luís; Chamusca, Pedro. "Corporate hosts: The rise of professional management in the short-term rental industry". Tourism Management Perspectives 40 4 (2021): 100879. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2021.100879. Published • 10.1016/j.tmp.2021.100879 Antonio López-Gay; Agustin Cocola-Gant; Antonio Paolo Russo. "Urban tourism and population change: Gentrification in the age of mobilities". Population, Space and Place 27 1 (2021): e2380. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2380. 10.1002/psp.2380 Cocola-Gant, A.; Gago, A.. "Airbnb, buy-to-let investment and tourism-driven displacement: A case study in Lisbon". Environment and Planning A 53 7 (2021): 1671-1688. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85071497164&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Open access • Published • 10.1177/0308518X19869012 Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Apartamentos turísticos, Covid-19 e capitalismo de plataformas". Finisterra 55 115 (2020): 211-216. https://revistas.rcaap.pt/finisterra/article/view/20187. Open access • Published • 10.18055/FINIS20187 Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Lopez-Gay, Antonio. "Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of ‘foreign only’ enclaves in Barcelona". Urban Studies 57 15 (2020): 3025-3043. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020916111. Published • 10.1177/0042098020916111 Estevens, Ana; Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Calvo, Daniel Malet; Matos, Filipe. "Arts and Culture in Lisbon’s Recent Revitalization : Observing Mouraria and Intendente Square through Alternative Local Initiatives as Drivers of Marginal Gentrification". Interventions économiques 63 (2020): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/interventionseconomiques.8647. Published • 10.4000/interventionseconomiques.8647 Estevens, Ana; Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Malet-Calvo, Daniel; Matos, Filipe. "As artes e a cultura nas práticas hegemónicas e alternativas na cidade de Lisboa. O caso do Largo do Intendente". Forum Sociológico 35 (2019): 9-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/sociologico.7826. Published • 10.4000/sociologico.7826 Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Pardo, Daniel. "Resisting tourism gentrification. The experience of grassroots movements in Barcelona". Urbanistica Tre, Giornale Online di Urbanistica 5 13 (2017): 39-47. Open access • Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Durán, Gustavo; Janoschka, Michael. "La ciudad del siglo XXI: políticas públicas urbanas, desplazamientos y contestaciones". Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales 56 (2016): 11-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17141/iconos.56.2016.2351. Open access • Published • 10.17141/iconos.56.2016.2351 Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Holiday Rentals: The New Gentrification Battlefront". Sociological Research Online 21 3 (2016): 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.4071. Open access • Published • 10.5153/sro.4071 Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Palou Rubio, Saida. "Tourism promotion and urban space in Barcelona. Historic perspective and critical review, 1900-1936". Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica 61 3 (2015): 461-482. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/dag.266. Open access • 10.5565/rev/dag.266 Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "La "reinvenzione" del Barrio Gótico a Barcellona: nazionalismo e turismo alla metà del XX secolo". STORIA URBANA 142 (2014): 59-75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/su2014-142004. Published • 10.3280/su2014-142004 Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "The invention of the Barcelona Gothic Quarter". Journal of Heritage Tourism 9 1 (2014): 18-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2013.815760. Published • 10.1080/1743873x.2013.815760 Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "La fabricación de monumentos antiguos en la era del turismo de masas". E-RPH Revista de Patrimonio Histórico 11 (2012): 1-16. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/35991. Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "El Barrio Gótico de Barcelona. De símbolo nacional a parque temático". Scripta Nova 15 371 (2011): http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn/sn-371.htm. doi.org/10.1344/sn2011.15.3393 Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "El MACBA y su función en la marca Barcelona". Ciudad y Territorio. Estudios Territoriales 159 (2009): 87-101. https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/75908. Published
Journal issue	Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Hof, Angela; Smiegel, C; Yrigoy, Ismael. "Short-term rentals as a new urban frontier – evidence from European cities". Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53 7 (2021): https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/53/7. Published Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Durán, Gustavo. "La ciudad del siglo XXI: políticas públicas, desplazamientos y contestaciones". Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales 56 (2016): https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/issue/view/143. Published
Magazine article	Estevens, Ana; Pavel, Fabiana; Cocola-Gant, Agustín. "Para quem é a reabilitação que se faz em Lisboa? Reabilitação e turismo, uma retórica na procura do lucro.", Le Monde Diplomatique, 2022, https://pt.mondediplo.com/2022/10/para-quem-e-a-reabilitacao-que-se-faz-em-lisboa.html. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "O capitalismo imobiliário e a crise da habitação em Lisboa", Le Monde Diplomatique, 2018
Report	Fabiana Pavel; Ana Estevens; Ana Gago; Agustín Cocola-Gant. 2022. O Alojamento Local na cidade de Lisboa. Policy Brief.. https://doi.org/10.33787/CEG20220001. 10.33787/CEG20220001 Ana Estevens; Fabian Pavel; Agustín Cocola-Gant; António Lopez-Gay. 2022. Reabilitação e turismo na cidade de Lisboa. Policy Brief. https://doi.org/10.33787/CEG20220003. 10.33787/CEG20220003 Cocola-Gant, Agustin. 2016. Apartamentos turísticos, hoteles y desplazamiento de población. Informe para el debate sobre el nuevo Plan Especial Urbanístico de Regulación de los Alojamientos Turísticos de Barcelona. https://agustincocolagant.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Informe_gotic_final.pdf.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/04/25	The changing state of the short-term rental market	Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference Urban Affairs Association (New York, United States)
2023/08/31	The future of housing and dwelling practices in an age of digital platforms. Round Table.	RGS-IBG Annual International Conference Royal Geographical Society (London, United Kingdom)
2023/04/12	El papel del Estado en la turistificación de Lisboa	Red Iberoamericana de Conflictos Urbanos. Congreso Internacional Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina)
2023/01/17	Tourism mobilities, transient populations, and housing dynamics in Barcelona	Transient populations and the city University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/08/31	Tech, real estate, and hospitality: temporary rentals and the consolidation of transnational gentrification	European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Annual Conference European Network for Housing Research (Barcelona, Spain)
2022/06/23	La consolidación de la industria del alquiler vacacional	Like a Lokal Conference UNEM, Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2022/06/07	The platform economy and the supply-side of the holiday rental market. New layers of intermediation and industry consolidation	The 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography UCD (Dublin, Ireland)
2022/01/11	Touristification in Southern European Coastal Cities	Touristification in Southern European Coastal Cities University of Palermo (Palermo, Italy)
2021/08/31	The promise of profitability: using short-term rental market data to attract real estate investors	RGS-IBG Annual International Conference Royal Geographical Society (London, United Kingdom)
2021/07/08	The rise of short-term rental management companies and the hotelization of Airbnb	RC21 International Conference Antwerp University (Antwerp, Belgium)
2021/06/08	The short-term rental market	Workshop Actually Existing Platformization University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2021/03/17	Transient Barcelona: tourists and global gentrifiers in the creative city	Transient Barcelona: tourists and global gentrifiers in the creative city Birkbeck, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2021/03/11	Platform capitalism and the future of short-term rentals	Platform capitalism and the future of short-term rentals Open University of Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
2020/11/07	Overtourism and neighbourhood change. An analytical framework	T-Forum Global Conference Algarve University (Faro, Portugal)
2020/10/27	Short Term Rentals in Lisbon within and beyond the pandemic	Short-term rentals (STRs) impacting housing and impacted by Covid-19. International Workshop Institute for Urban Research, Malmö University (Malmo, Sweden)
2020/06/05	Touristification in Barcelona	Tourism as a development strategy: the rise of the paradigm, consequences and future prospects Sapienza University of Rome – Faculty of Engineering, Department DICEA (Rome)
2019/09/17	Airbnb, buy-to-let investment and loss of place. The case of Lisbon	ATLAS Annual Conference ATLAS (Girona)
2019/07/12	Governing and planning urban tourism and mobilities in the 21st century city. Round Table together with Raoul Bianchi; Johannes Novy; Paolo Russo; and Claire Colomb.	AESOP International Conference (Venice)
2019/07/09	Place-based Displacement: Exploring the Impacts of Tourism in a Residential Area	AESOP Annual Conference (Venice)
2019/06/20	Airbnb and buy-to-let investment	A transformative municipalism? Barcelona’s experience in perspective Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona)
2018/09/26	Lifestyle migrants in tourist cities	ATLAS Annual Conference (Copenhagen)
2018/07/13	Place-based displacement. Residents’ perceptions of urban tourism	Competing for urban space: neighbourhood change and population dynamics Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona)
2018/06/28	Urban planning, national identity and historic heritage	Art and Dictatorships Humboldt-Universität Berlin (Berlin)
2018/01/26	Tourism, housing and real estate investment	Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Political Economy (Lisbon)
2017/11/14	The socio-spatial impacts of short-term rentals	Touristification. Impacts and alternatives University of Seville (Seville)
2017/09/11	Transnational gentrification and tourism: Western Europeans and North Americans as pioneer gentrifiers in Barcelona	RC21 International Conference (Leeds)
2017/07/04	Tourism, authenticity, and architectural reconstruction: an historic perspective	Architecture and tourism. Fictions, simulacra, virtualities Paris Sorbone (Paris)
2016/10/25	Airbnb and displacement	Anti-gentrification practices in Southern Europe Three University of Rome (Rome)
2016/08/30	Urban tourism. New questions for gentrification research	RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (London)
2016/07/04	Alojamiento turístico y desplazamiento de población	Contested-Cities International Conference (Madrid)
2016/05/31	Holiday apartments and displacement of communities. New challenges for public policy	Symposium UPE 12. International Urban Planning and Environment Association (Lisbon)
2015/08/27	Tourism and commercial gentrification	RC21 International Conference (Urbino)
2015/03/31	Struggling with the leisure class. Tourism, gentrification and displacement	Stadkolloquium. Urban Laboratory. University College London (London)
2014/11/14	Tourism and urban planning in Barcelona. An historic perspective	The history of tourism in Barcelona Barcelona City Council (Barcelona)
2013/06/26	La revalorización del gótico y su influencia en el modernismo. Historiografía y restauración en Barcelona	CDF International Conference (Barcelona)
2012/01/25	City marketing, tourism and postmodern architecture in Barcelona. Some social consequences	TOURBANISM: 6th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (Barcelona)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/01/01 - 2027/06/01	Nómadas digitais em Lisboa: Motivações e praticas de consumo na cidade turística. Orientador de Catarina Belo Supervisor	Doutoramento em Turismo (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2022/01/01 - 2026/01/01	Airbnb in Rio de Janeiro. Oriendator de Pedro Ferreira. Supervisor	Doutoramento em Geografia Humana (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Plataformas digitales como un nuevo actor multiescalar en la reconfiguración del espacio. El caso de Airbnb. Orientador de Miguel McCormick Co-supervisor	DOCTORADO EN GEOGRAFÍA Y ORDENACIÓN TERRITORIAL (PhD) Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31	The political economy of short-term rental management in Vienna. Orientador de Ynnon Roher. Co-supervisor	Doutoramento em Geografia (PhD) Salzburg University, Austria
2022/02/01 - 2025/09/30	A plataformização da hospitalidade: um estudo transcultural do Airbnb à luz da economia de plataforma. Orientador de Rebeka Coelho. Co-supervisor	Economia (PhD) Centro Universitário do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2021/02/01 - 2025/01/31	Regulating short-term rentals-based platform capitalism: A comparative assessment among European cities. Orientador de Gianluca Bei Co-supervisor	Doutoramento em Geografia Humana (PhD) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31	The experiences of women living in Lisbon city centre: tourism, urban change and everyday life. Orientador de Sara Larrabure Supervisor	Geografia Humana (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31	Airbnb and the right to the city. Orientador de Ana Gago Supervisor of Ana Gago	Geografia Humana (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2022/10/05 - 2023/07/11	Technology Adoption in the Short-Term Rental Property Management Industry Supervisor	Mestrado em Turismo e Comunicação (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2023/05/31	Post-doctoral supervision of Franz Buhr. Researcher at the SMARTDEST project Supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2022/10/31	AIRBNB EM LISBOA - DA PARTILHA À PROFISSIONALIZAÇÃO DO ALOJAMENTO LOCAL Supervisor	Turismo e Comunicação (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2020/05/01 - 2022/05/01	Post-doctoral supervision of Ana Estevens at SMARTOUR project Supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2019/01/17 - 2020/07/31	The sharing economy and social inequalities. Airbnb hosts in Lisbon and Porto Co-supervisor of Benjamin Konstant	Social and Economic Geography (Master) Universität Leipzig, Germany
2019/05/01 - 2019/10/31	Post-doctoral supervision of Jaime Jover at SMARTOUR project Supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2019/09/13	Urban regeneration and securitisation of space in Lisbon Co-supervisor of Antoine Mandoux	Geografia Humana: Globalização, Sociedade e Território (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2019/09/09	Housing Financialization in Lisbon Historical Centre Supervisor of Gloria Dominguez	Geografia Humana: Globalização, Sociedade e Território (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2016/11/01 - 2018/04/04	Short-term rentals and tourism gentrification in Lisbon Co-supervisor of Ana Gago	Turismo e Comunicação (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/09/04 - 2023/09/07	Session Organizer: The rise of corporate hosts in the short-term rental market and its impact on housing and places (2023 - 2023) Congress (Co-organisor)	Universitat de Barcelona Departament de Geografia, Spain
2021/08/31 - 2021/09/01	Session Organizer: RGS-IBG. Annual International Conference. Airbnb and platform real estate: exploring the supply-side and organisation of the short-term rental market (2021/08/31 - 2021/09/01) Congress (Co-organisor)	Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom
2017/09/11 - 2017/09/13	Session Organizer: RC21 International Conference. Holiday rentals and the right to housing (2017/09/11 - 2017/09/13) Congress (Co-organisor)	University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2023/10/24	La crisis turística de los barrios de Barcelona: entre gentrificación y falta de convivencia (Thesis) Main arguer	Mendoza, G (PhD) Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
2023/09/27	Gentrificación y segregación residencial en ciudades españolas en globalización. Un estudio sociohistórico y comparado de los centros de Madrid, Barcelona y Valencia (Thesis) Main arguer	Mazzorra, A (PhD) Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
2022/06/22	Tourism and its implication in theoretical criminology: a shift towards social disorganization (Thesis) Main arguer	Diego Maldonado (PhD) Universidad de Cadiz Departamento de Derecho Internacional Público Penal y Procesal, Spain
2022/01/12	Assessing the sharing economy characteristics and social impacts of peer-to-peer accommodation on host communities: an analysis of Airbnb and Fairbnb.coop (Thesis) Main arguer	Marina Petruzzi (PhD) ISCTE Business School, Portugal
2021/10/14	Airbnb in the real estate financial chain. Housing and policies in Southern European post-crisis territories (Thesis) Main arguer	Chiara Iacovone (PhD) Politecnico di Torino, Italy
2019/07/22	Tourism, gentrification and residential mobilities. The case of Barcelona (Thesis) Arguer	Joan Sales (PhD)
2019/05/23	New ruins: the failure of tourism urbanisation projects in Portugal and Brazil (Thesis) Arguer	D’Angelis, M (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2024/07/02 - 2024/07/05	IMISCOE Annual Conference. International Migration Research Network	Lisboa
2023/09/11 - 2023/09/13	3rd Digital Geographies Conference	Lisbon
2023/05/22 - 2023/05/23	8th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy	Vienna
2021/09/01 - 2021/10/29	XIII International Tourism Congress	Estoril School of Hospitality
2020/07/01 - 2020/07/03	7th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy	Barcelona
2018/03/15 - 2018/03/16	Short-term tourism rentals: Observation, regulations and labour reconfigurations	EIREST, Paris 1 Sorbonne University

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2021/01/01 - 2022/12/15	Consultant for the European Commission on the "Study on National Regulatory Approaches to Short-Term Accommodation Services".	European Commission, Belgium

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/07/01 - 2024/07/05	Summer School Short-term rentals		Sveleucili¿te u Splitu Sveucili¿ni odjel za strucne studije, Croatia
2019/09/15 - 2021/05/31	PhD Seminar	Doutoramento em Turismo (Doutoramento)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2019/07/20 - 2021/01/19	Tourism Geography	Turismo e Comunicação (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2019/09/15 - 2021/01/18	Regional Geography	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2020/01/15 - 2020/06/15	Buenos Aires Field Trip	(Bachelor)	University of Leeds Faculty of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
2020/01/26 - 2020/06/04	Critical Urban Studies	(Bachelor)	University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2015/01/30 - 2019/05/31	Urban Tourism and Gentrification	Geografia Humana: Globalização, Sociedade e Território (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2018/11/05 - 2018/11/10	Airbnb and tourism gentrification	(Master)	Universität Leipzig, Germany
2018/01/29 - 2018/06/30	Geografía Urbana	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2017/01/30 - 2017/06/30	Geografia Social e Cultural	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2020	Special Honour, University of Lisbon Best Researcher Award in the field of Geography and Planning Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2018	Best Paper Presentation Award, ATLAS Conference
2004	Prize Best Student. Degree History of Art Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Title

2010	Awarded European PhD Universitat de Barcelona, Spain