José Luís Possolo de Saldanha (Lisbon, 10 September 1966) is an architect by Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (academic year 1988/89), with a final grade of 14 out of 20, and the qualification “Good”. In June 1989, he enrolled in the post-graduation course “Patologia, Reabilitação e Manutenção de Estruturas e Edifícios” by Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, which he finished successfully at the end of that year. In February 1990, he had a six month internship with Construtora Wysling Gomes Ltda, in São Paulo. Between October 1999 and July 2002 he had a scholarship from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian for his reserach and Doctoral Thesis in Architecture at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSA) at the University of Seville (US), with a worh named "Dispersed Housing Architecture in the Inner Alentejo Interior Olive Groves. «Montes» with Olive-Press in the Province Beyond-Tagus", which he publicly presented on 10 June 2003 at the Departamento de Teoría, História y Composición of that higher-education institution, with the highest classification “aprobado cum laudae por unanimidad”.His thesis is registered at the Registo Nacional de Títulos de Espanha under nr.2005/074019, and Registo Universitário de Títulos de Sevilla under nr. 000123357. The same was registered at Instituto Superior das Ciências e do Trabalho na Empresa (ISCTE), in Lisbon. On 25 de Octuber 2006, with nr. 5/06. A 1.100 copy adpated edition of his PhD thesise doutoral, was published on December 2003, under the name “Azeites e Olivais no Alentejo. «Montes» com Lagar na Província Transtagana”, sponsored by Caixa Agrícola de Crédito and Grupo Sovena/Azeites Oliveira da Serra. A lecture since 1996, he is na associate professor at ISCTE-IUL, where he was a President of the Pedagogical Council duriang 2013 and 2014, and where he was Head of the Architecture and Urbanism Departmente between July 2016 and September 2019. He has publcished books, chapters of books, articles and papers in jornals in Portugal, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Brasil. He was a deputy member of the Regional Disciplinary Council of the Southern Section of Portuguese Order of Architects during 2016-2019. He maintains a regular private activity in architecture design, built in continental Portugal and the Autonomous Region of Madeira.