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Gabriel Valença is currently an Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. He has concluded his Ph.D. in Transportation Systems with Distinction and Honour in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment at the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (2023). He is a European Doctoral Training Network Alumni member held by EIT Urban Mobility. He was a Visiting Ph.D. scholar at the Technical University of Denmark for six months (2022). He has graduated in Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN (2017), Brazil, while, studying part of his degree at the University of Toronto, Canada (2013/2014).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Gabriel Valença

Citation names

  • Valença, Gabriel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
DF15-8494-BA2F
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3684-3005
Google Scholar ID
C6ZkQvAAAAAJ&hl
LattesiD
http://lattes.cnpq.br/9569852495838627

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering - Transport Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018 - 2023/12/18
Concluded
 Transportation Systems (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Allocating road space dynamically over time in complex urban areas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Distinction and Honour
2022/05/01 - 2022/10/31
Concluded
 Visiting Ph.D. scholar (Doktorexamen)
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
2011/08/01 - 2017/07/04
Concluded
 Civil Engineering (Bachelor)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
"O conceito de ruas completas: Aplicação a um projeto viário em Natal, RN, considerando a Política Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/01/01 - 2014/12/31
Concluded
 Civil Engineering (Bachelor)
University of Toronto, Canada
2013/09 - 2013/12
Concluded
 Advanced Academic English (Diplôme d´études supérieures)
University of Toronto, Canada
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/01/01 - 2025/05/31 Postdoc (Research) Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/06/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/09/01 - 2025/05/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/05/01 - 2024/12/31 Dynamic and equitable Reallocation of Urban Street Space
PTDC/ECI-TRA/3120/2021
10.54499/PTDC/ECI-TRA/3120/2021
Post-doc Fellow
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade, Portugal

Centro de Investigação do Território Transportes e Ambiente, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Dynamic and equitable Reallocation of Urban Street Space
PTDC/ECI-TRA/3120/2021
10.54499/PTDC/ECI-TRA/3120/2021
PhD Student Fellow
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade, Portugal

Centro de Investigação do Território Transportes e Ambiente, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Valença, Gabriel; Hook, Hannah. "Resistance to 15-minute cites: Cultural, political, and social dimensions in the U.S". Paper presented in NECTAR Cluster 6 (Accessibility) and Cluster 8 (Information and Communication Technologies) Joint Meeting, Lisbon, 2025.
    Published
  2. Boani, Breno; Valença, Gabriel; Humberto, Mateus; Moura, Filipe. "Capturing changes in pedestrians’ perception of walkability attributes along the day". Paper presented in NECTAR Cluster 6 (Accessibility) and Cluster 8 (Information and Communication Technologies) Joint Meeting, Lisbon, 2025.
    Published
  3. Lopes, Maria Inês; Valença, Gabriel; Humberto, Mateus; Moura, Filipe. "Analyzing the Preference for Urban Interventions Oriented to Different Transportation Modes Using a Before-and-After Approach". Paper presented in NECTAR Cluster 6 (Accessibility) and Cluster 8 (Information and Communication Technologies) Joint Meeting, Lisbon, 2025.
    Published
  4. Rosa Félix; Gabriel Valença; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. Corresponding author: Rosa Félix. "SiteSelection: an open-source tool to identify complex areas for street space reallocation". Paper presented in GET 2025: 22nd Portuguese Meeting of the Research Network on Transportation, Alcobaça, 2025.
    Published
  5. Boani, Breno; Valença, Gabriel; Humberto, Mateus; Moura, Filipe. "How do pedestrians perceive the changes in the urban environment at different times of the day?". Paper presented in GET 2025: 22nd Portuguese Meeting of the Research Network on Transportation, Alcobaça, 2025.
    Published
  6. Valença, Gabriel; Hook, Hannah. "Perception in social media regarding the 15 minute city". Paper presented in GET 2025: 22nd Portuguese Meeting of the Research Network on Transportation, Alcobaça, 2025.
    Published
  7. Matajs, Cecília; Baptista, Patrícia; Valença, Gabriel; Félix, Rosa; Moura, Filipe. "Evaluation of environmental and health impacts of dynamic road space allocation". Paper presented in GET 2025: 22nd Portuguese Meeting of the Research Network on Transportation, Alcobaça, 2025.
    Published
  8. Lopes, Maria Inês; Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe. "Understanding preferences on different urban interventions to better inform urban planning". Paper presented in GET 2025: 22nd Portuguese Meeting of the Research Network on Transportation, Alcobaça, 2025.
    Published
  9. Boani, Breno; Valença, Gabriel; Humberto, Mateus; Moura, Filipe. "Temporal Patterns of Pedestrians' Constraints in the Urban Environment: Supporting Road Space Reallocation". Paper presented in Walk 21 Portugal, Lisbon, 2024.
    Published
  10. Valença, Gabriel; Morais de Sá, Ana; Freddy Paiva, Nogueira ; Moura, Filipe. "What are the challenges of dynamic road space allocation?". Paper presented in 36th Annual AESOP Congress, Paris, 2024.
    Published
  11. Gabriel Valença; Félix, Rosa; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "Identifying complexity to reallocate street space: An open-source tool for Portugal.". Paper presented in NECTAR Conference, Brussels, 2024.
    Published
  12. Moura, Filipe; Valença, Gabriel; Morais de Sá, Ana. "Unveiling the challenges of dynamic street space allocation.". Paper presented in GET 2024: 20th Portuguese Meeting of the Transports Study Group, Batalha, 2024.
    Published
  13. Lopes, Maria Inês; Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe. "Shaping Walkable Cities: Evaluating Social Perceptions to Urban Interventions through Pairwaise Image Comparisions". Paper presented in Walk 21 Portugal, Lisbon, 2024.
    Published
  14. Leite, Margarida; Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe. "Developing Technological Solutions for Dynamic Road Space Allocation: A Design Thinking Approach". Paper presented in Walk 21 Portugal, Lisbon, 2024.
    Published
  15. Valença, Gabriel; Nogueira, Freddy; Santos, Gonçalo; Baptista, Patrícia; Marques, Manuel; Azevedo, Carlos; Antunes, António Pais; Moura, Filipe. "Urban sensing and smart infrastructure technologies that enable dynamic Distribution of street space: a systematic review". Paper presented in Urban Transitions, Sitges, 2024.
    Published
  16. Lopes, João; Valença, Gabriel; Santos, Gonçalo; Morais de Sá, Ana; Moura, Filipe; Antunes, António Pais. "Spatial assessment to identify candidate areas for dynamic street space allocation solutions in the city of Coimbra.". Paper presented in ECTQG: 23rd European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, Braga, 2023.
    Published
  17. Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "Road space allocation strategies that change over time: A systematic review using text mining". Paper presented in Transport Research Arena (TRA), Lisbon, 2022.
  18. Félix, Rosa; Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe. "We're gonna bike up to electric avenue, and then we'll take it higher: e-bike purchase incentives in hilly Lisbon". Paper presented in Velo-city 2022, Ljubljana, 2022.
    Published
  19. Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "Evaluating local criteria for implementing Dynamic Road Space Allocation.". Paper presented in AESOP Annual Congress, Tartu, 2022.
    Published
  20. Nogueira, Freddy; Valença, Gabriel; Santos, Gonçalo; Morais de Sá, Ana; Antunes, António Pais; Moura, Filipe. "Is it Time to Rethink Public Space Allocation? A Systematic Literature Review". Paper presented in Urban Transitions, Sitges, 2022.
    Published
  21. Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "Using network centrality and land use indicators to define candidate zones for dynamic road space allocation". Paper presented in Transportation Research Board 101st Annual Meeting, Washington, 2022.
    Published
  22. Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "Selecting streets and local characteristics for implementing scenarios of dynamic road space allocation". Paper presented in Transportation Research Arena (TRA), Lisbon, 2022.
    Published
  23. Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "A site selection methodology for implementing dynamic road space allocation.". Paper presented in 13th CITTA Conference on Planning Research: Planning for Human Scale Cities (CITTA 2021), 2021.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Lopes, João; Santos, Gonçalo; Valença, Gabriel; Morais de Sá, Ana; Antunes, António Pais; Moura, Filipe. "Dynamic road space allocation in a small city: an adjusted zone selection methodology". Paper presented in 26th Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT 2024), Lund, 2025.
    Published
  2. Boani, Breno; Valença, Gabriel; Humberto, Mateus; Moura, Filipe. "Identificação de Barreiras Enfrentadas por Pedestres em Diferentes Horários do Dia: Caso de Estudo em Lisboa". Paper presented in 38º ANPET: Congresso de Pesquisa e Ensino em Transportes, Florianopolis, 2024.
  3. Félix, Rosa; Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe. "O impacte de incentivos públicos à aquisição de bicicletas elétricas na adoção do modo ciclável. O caso de Lisboa". Paper presented in 10º Congresso Rodoferroviário Português 2022, 2022.
    Published
  4. Valença, Gabriel; Stumpf, Gabriel; Soares, Cláudia; Moura, Filipe. "Screening walkability violations through self-reported claims by smartphone detection: The case of Lisbon, Portugal". Paper presented in 24th Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting, 2021.
    10.1016/j.trpro.2022.02.080
  5. Valença, Gabriel; Santos, Enilson. "O conceito de ruas completas: aplicação a um projeto viário em Natal-RN, Brasil, considerando a Política Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana". Paper presented in XX Congreso Latinoamericano de Transporte Público y Urbano, 2018.
  6. Santos, Enilson; Valença, Gabriel. "Reflexões acerca da aplicação da lei da Política Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana e da elaboração de planos locais de mobilidade urbana no Brasil". Paper presented in XIX Congreso Latinoamericano de Transporte Público y Urbano, Montevideo, 2016.
  7. Valença, Gabriel; Santos, Enilson. "A infraestrutura cicloviária e o conceito de ruas completas: Lições da experiência de Toronto, Canadá". Paper presented in VII Congresso Luso-Brasileiro para o Planejamento Urbano, Regional, Integrado e Sustentável (PLURIS), Maceió, 2016.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Lopes, Maria Inês; Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe. "Understanding preferences on different urban interventions to better inform urban planning". Paper presented in GET 2025: 22nd Portuguese Meeting of the Research Network on Transportation, 2025.
  2. Lopes, Maria Inês; Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe. "Shaping Walkable Cities: Evaluating Social Perceptions to Urban Interventions through Pairwaise Image Comparisions". Paper presented in Walk 21 Portugal, 2024.
  3. Leite, Margarida; Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe. "Developing Technological Solutions for Dynamic Road Space Allocation: A Design Thinking Approach". Paper presented in Walk 21 Portugal, 2024.
  4. Nogueira, Freddy; Valença, Gabriel; Santos, Gonçalo; Morais de Sá, Ana; Antunes, António Pais; Moura, Filipe. "Is it Time to Rethink Public Space Allocation? A Systematic Literature Review". Paper presented in Urban Transitions, 2022.
  5. Valença, Gabriel; Nogueira, Freddy; Santos, Gonçalo; Baptista, Patrícia; Manuel B. Marques; Azevedo, Carlos; Antunes, António Pais; Moura, Filipe. "Urban sensing and smart infrastructure technologies that enable dynamic Distribution of street space: a systematic review". Paper presented in Urban Transitions, 2022.
  6. Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "Using network centrality and land use indicators to define candidate zones for dynamic road space allocation". Paper presented in Transportation Research Board 101st Annual Meeting, 2022.
  7. Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "Selecting streets and local characteristics for implementing scenarios of dynamic road space allocation". Paper presented in Transportation Research Arena (TRA), 2022.
Journal article
  1. Costa, Miguel; Valença, Gabriel; Adorean, Cristian; Moura, Filipe. "The relation between circuity and mobility cultures: A study of 41 European cities". Cities 166 (2025): 106087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106087.
    Published • 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106087
  2. Gabriel Valença; Carlos Azevedo; Filipe Moura; Ana Morais de Sá. "Creating visualizations using generative AI to guide decision-making in street designs: A viewpoint". Journal of Urban Mobility (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100104.
    10.1016/j.urbmob.2025.100104
  3. Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "Exploring criteria for reallocating road space dynamically: lessons from a workshop with experts". Journal of Urban Design 29 3 (2024): 301-317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2023.2240245.
    10.1080/13574809.2023.2240245
  4. Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "Where is it complex to reallocate road space?". Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 51 6 (2024): 1290-1307. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083231217770.
    Open access • Published • 10.1177/23998083231217770
  5. Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "How can we develop road space allocation solutions for smart cities using emerging information technologies? A review using text mining". International Journal of Information Management Data Insights 3 1 (2023): 100150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjimei.2022.100150.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jjimei.2022.100150
  6. Moura, Filipe; Valença, Gabriel; Félix, Rosa; Vale, David. "The impact of public bike-sharing systems on mobility patterns: Generating or replacing trips?". International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 17 11 (2023): 1263. https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2022.2163209.
    Published • 10.1080/15568318.2022.2163209
  7. Valença, Gabriel; Moura, Filipe; Morais de Sá, Ana. "Main challenges and opportunities to dynamic road space allocation: From static to dynamic urban designs". Journal of Urban Mobility 1 (2021): 100008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urbmob.2021.100008.
    10.1016/j.urbmob.2021.100008
  8. Valença, Gabriel; Santos, Enilson. "A relação entre o conceito de ruas completas e a Política Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana: aplicação a um projeto viário em Natal-RN, Brasil". Eure 46 139 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612020000300073.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612020000300073
  9. Valença, Gabriel; Santos, Enilson. "The concept of complete streets and the cycling infrastructure: The case of Toronto, Canada,O conceito de ruas completas e a infraestrutura cicloviária: A experiência de Toronto, Canadá". Espacios 39 8 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85042639399&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Magazine article
  1. Valença, Gabriel. "Why is reinforced concrete still so dominant in Brazilian structural engineering projects?", The Civilian, 2014, https://issuu.com/civmin/docs/civilian_june_2014_web.
  2. Valença, Gabriel. "Brazil’s World Cup", World of Words, 2013, http://issuu.com/englishlanguageprogram/docs/wow_december_2013?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml.
Online resource
  1. Félix, Rosa; Valença, Gabriel; Pereira, Rafael. Get your Dataset Ready: Using R and GIS.. 2024. https://u-shift.github.io/EITcourse/.
  2. Moura, Filipe; Félix, Rosa; Valença, Gabriel. U-Shift/MQAT: Supporting materials to Quantitative Methods of Analysis in Transportation classes at Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon. (Version 2023.0).. 2023. https://github.com/U-Shift/MQAT.
  3. Moura, Filipe; Gabriel Valença; Costa, Miguel; ROQUE, CARLOS; Félix, Rosa. U-Shift/Transport-Demand-Modelling: Supporting materials to Transportation Demand Modelling classes at Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon. (Version 2021.0).. 2021. https://github.com/U-Shift/Transport-Demand-Modelling.
    http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4599525
Report
  1. Picado-Santos, Luis; Moura, Filipe; Cambra, Paulo; Valença, Gabriel. 2023. Plano de Mobilidade e Transportes do Município de Loures. Volume I: Caracterização e Diagnóstico.
  2. Picado-Santos, Luis; Moura, Filipe; Valença, Gabriel; Cambra, Paulo. 2023. Plano de Mobilidade e Transportes do Município de Loures. Volume II: Inquérito à Mobilidade e Modelação das Escolhas Modais.
  3. Picado-Santos, Luis; Moura, Filipe; Valença, Gabriel; Martins, Ana; Pereira, Paula; Grave, Luís; Pires, João; Mateus, Tânia; Mestre, Margarida. 2023. Plano de Mobilidade e Transportes do Município de Loures. Volume III: Estratégia e Plano de Ação.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Allocating road space dynamically over time in complex urban areas". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2023. https://scholar.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/records/1BuWZtRtGSuEj4xQwMne4Zb8AVPoLaUhxl9H.

Other

Software
  1. Rosa Félix; Gabriel Valença. "SiteSelection: An R script to find complex areas for the Streets4All Project". 0.2. Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico. https://u-shift.github.io/SiteSelection/. 2024.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/04/08 Alocação dinâmica do espaço rodoviário em áreas urbanas e complexas Conversas à Terça
RedeMov - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2025/01/31 Perception in social media regarding the 15 minute city GET 2025: 22nd Portuguese Meeting of the Research Network on Transportation
(Alcobaça, Portugal)
2024 Identifying complexity to reallocate street space: An open-source tool for Portugal. NECTAR Conference
(Brussels, Belgium)
2022 Road space allocation strategies that change over time: A systematic review using text mining Transport Research Arena (TRA)
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2022 Selecting streets and local characteristics for implementing scenarios of dynamic road space allocation Transport Research Arena (TRA)
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2022 Evaluating local criteria for implementing Dynamic Road Space Allocation AESOP Annual Congress
(Tartu (online), Estonia)
2022 Using text mining to perform literature reviews in transport and urban studies: a case study on emergent road space allocation solutions 18th Portuguese Research Group in Mobility and Transportation Meeting (GET-2022)
(Porto, Portugal)
2021 Screening walkability violations through self-reported claims by smartphone detection: The case of Lisbon, Portugal EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT 2021)
2021 A site selection methodology for implementing dynamic road space allocation 13th CITTA Conference on Planning Research: Planning for Human Scale Cities (CITTA 2021)
(Portugal)
2018 O conceito de ruas completas: aplicação a um projeto viário em Natal-RN, Brasil, considerando a Política Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana XX Latin-American Conference of Public and Urban Transportation (CLATPU 2018)
(Medellín, Colombia)
2017 The concept of complete streets: application of a road project in Natal, RN, taking into consideration the National Urban Mobility Policy Invited keynote speaker at the Espaço Organizacional of the Geography undergraduate course
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Brazil)
2016 Reflexões Acerca da Aplicação da Lei da Política Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana e da Elaboração de Planos Locais de Mobilidade Urbana no Brasil XIX Latin-American Conference of Public and Urban Transportation (CLATPU 2016)
(Montevideo, Uruguay)
2016 A Infraestrutura Cicloviária e o Conceito de Ruas Completas: Lições da Experiência de Toronto, Canadá Presentation to the VII Urban, Regional, Integrated and Sustainable Planning Luso-Brazilian Conference (PLURIS 2016)
(Maceio, Brazil)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025/03 - Current Análise da satisfação e confiabilidade na mobilidade escolar de crianças em transporte públicos
Supervisor
 Sistemas de Transportes (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/01 - Current Acceptance of Urban Interventions Among Different User Groups using Google Street View Time Machine Tool
Co-supervisor
 Engineering and Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/01 - 2025/06/30 Developing Technologies and Dynamic Road Space Allocation Solutions: A Design Thinking Approach
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Civil (ULisboa e SHU) (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/01 - 2024/12/11 Assessing Pedestrians’ Perceptions About the Urban Environment in Different Times of the Day
Co-supervisor of Breno Boani da Costa
 Engenharia Civil (ULisboa e SHU) (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/06/17 - 2025/06/17 Organization of the CERIS Pizza Seminar together with Prof. João Abreu. Dr. Hannah Hook from the University of Ghent (Belgium) and Prof. Ahmed El-Geneidy from McGill University (Canada) each gave a 25-minute presentation in a seminar entitled “From perceptions and attitudes to travel behaviour”. Event was performed at the Musuem of Civil Engineering at IST. The Event was funded by the CERIS. June 2025. (2025/06/17 - 2025/06/17)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2025/04/16 - 2025/04/16 Organization of the CERIS Pizza Seminar. Avital Angel from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) gave a 40-minute presentation entitled "Walking and the city – Understanding pedestrian movement through big data technologies and machine learning analysis over time". Event was performed at the Musuem of Civil Engineering at IST. The Event was funded by the CERIS. April 2025. (2025/04/16 - 2025/04/16)
Seminar (Other)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Invited to partipate in a round-table, entitled: "Shaping a fair and sustainable city: How to support young adults in overcoming housing, work, and mobility challenges."
Round table
 Hybgen Joint Seminar Lisbon-Oslo
ISCTE Business School, Portugal
2022/04/19 - 2022/04/19 Invited speaker for the Civil Engineering Graduate Studies of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Brazil. I gave the 2-hour lecture in Portuguese entitled "Ferramentas de Programação Aplicadas a Problemas e Modelação de Transportes".
Seminar
 International Talks
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/06/30 Desenvolvimento de soluções inovadoras e tecnológicas para a realocação dinâmica do espaço viário. Uma Abordagem de Design Thinking
Supervisor
 Margarida Marques da Silva Leite (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2025/06/26 Barriers to Peer-to-Peer Car-Sharing Adoption in Portugal: An Interpretive Structural Modelling Approach
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Alícia Alexandra Pacheco Frango (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/12/11 Assessing Pedestrians’ Perception of the Urban Environment in Different Times of the Day
Supervisor
 Breno Boani da Costa (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/05 Improving Sustainable Mobility for University Campuses (Ph.D. project thesis)
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ewerton Torres (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/04/10 - Current Journal of Urban Mobility Elsevier
2024/02/14 - Current Journal of Transport Geography Elsevier
2024 - Current Cities Elservier
2020/03/15 - Current Case Studies on Transport Policy Elsevier

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024 - Current EIT Urban Mobility Alumni

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025/01 - 2025/03 Elements of Urban Engineering Engenharia Civil (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/08 - 2025/02 Transport Demand Management Sistemas de Transportes (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/09 - 2024/11 Quantitative Methods of Analysis in Transportation Sistemas de Transportes (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/09 - 2024/11 Planning and Management or Urban Mobility Engenharia Civil (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/09 - 2024/09 Get your Dataset Ready: Using R and GIS. Course given to Ph.D. Candidates enrolled in the Doctoral Training Network funded by the EIT Urban Mobility at the University of Ghent, Belgium. We have developed an open-source website with all the materials given in the course: https://u-shift.github.io/EITcourse/ R programming for transport and GIS applications (Postgraduate Certificate) Universiteit Gent Vakgroep Geografie, Belgium

EIT Urban Mobility, Belgium

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022/06 - Current Sociedade Civil Infraestrutura cicloviária
Distinctions

Award

2024 Honorable mention of the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
RedeMov - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Title

2023 Ph.D. with Distinction and Honour
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Other distinction

2024 EIT Urban Mobility Doctoral Training Network Label
EIT Urban Mobility, Belgium