Carolina Coelho graduated as an architect from the Department of Architecture, University of Coimbra (DARQ-UC) in 2008, where she also completed the diploma in advanced studies. She presented her doctoral thesis ‘Life within architecture from design process to space use. Adaptability in school buildings today - A methodological approach’, at the Centre for Social Studies and DARQ-UC in 2018, identifying adaptability in contemporary learning environments. The thesis was supervised by Mário Júlio Teixeira Krüger (DARQ-UC) and co-supervised by Teresa Valsassina Heitor (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon), having been approved with magna cum laudae. In 2019 her thesis was awarded the Glen Earthman Outstanding Dissertation Award from the International Society for Educational Planning, founded in Washington DC in 1970. Since 2013 Carolina Coelho lectures at DARQ-UC, where she is invited assistant professor in theory and history of architecture and subjects associated with architectural research, such as research seminar and laboratory of theory, and is supervisor of master’s theses. She teaches the research methodologies unit for the PhD course in architecture Coimbrastudio and also lectures at the PhD course in contemporary art at Colégio das Artes at the University of Coimbra. As assistant professor she has been awarded two honourable mentions by the University of Coimbra for her pedagogical performance. Carolina Coelho is an integrated researcher and member of the Scientific Coordination Board of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20). Her research interests focus on the living experience in space and in co-creation processes for active learning environments. She has published papers indexed by Scopus, namely: 'Survey on Student School Spaces: An Inclusive Design Tool for a Better School' in 2022, 'Adaptability Retrieval in Artistic Learning Environments' in 2017, 'Laying the fundamentals. Early methods and intentions from the outsets of space syntax' in 2017, and 'Towards a methodology to assess adaptability in educational spaces: An entropy approach to space syntax' in 2015. She is the author of book chapters, such as: ‘Rethinking the School and the City with Children’ (Routledge, 2025), 'The Constancies of Contemporary Learning’ (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024), 'Space, Adaptability and Use: Triangulating Research Criteria for Adaptability Retrieval' (Springer, 2021), and 'A Gathered Methodology: Towards Enhancing Adaptable Learning Spaces' (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018). She has presented her research in international events, such as: the European Architectural History Network - EAHN 2024 Conference (Athens, 2024), the Nordic Educational Research Association Conference (Malmö, 2024), the European Conference on Educational Research - ECER (Nicosia, 2024, Glasgow, 2023 and Geneva, 2021), the Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments - IASTE (Singapore, 2022 and Coimbra, 2018), Design of school buildings as a tool for educational improvements (Reykjavik, 2021), International Space Syntax Symposium (Portugal, 2017 and London, 2015). She participated in the project '(EU)ROPA: Rise of Portuguese Architecture', funded by the Portuguese FCT, where she co-coordinated the line 'What Research'. Between 2019 and 2022 she coordinated the Portuguese research team in 'CoReD: Collaborative Re-Design with Schools', an Erasmus+ project focused on tools for better aligning teaching practices and educational environments. Currently she integrates the intervention and research project team from the University of Coimbra for the refurbishment of José Falcão School in Coimbra, developing participatory approaches to the school community. She is also a researcher for the Municipality of Sintra’s Strategic Plan for 'A Sustainable, Young and Integrated Vision for the Construction of an Active and Healthy Territory and Citizens'.