Cátia Ramos is an architect and researcher. She is a collaborating researcher at the Centre of Architectural Studies - from Territory to Design (CEARQ-TD). She graduated in architecture in 2005 from the University School of Arts of Coimbra (ARCA-EUAC). She was approved with distinction and honour, holding, since 2022, a PhD Architecture by the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra. Her doctoral research was published by the Centre of Iberian Studies (CEI) and Âncora Editora, with the title ¿Guarda 100-2010: Cidade, Arquitetura, Projecto¿ (2024) (Guarda 100-2010: City, Architecture, Project). Her research received an FCT grant. Her research interests concern a critical history of Portuguese planning, particularly invested in the discussion of the political and societal construction of urban environments through design. She is also concerned with the visibility and path of Portuguese women architects, particularly the work of Maria José Abrunhosa. Along this line, she has published several scientific articles and presentations. Her latest publications include: "Maria José Abrunhosa de Castro (1949-1999): architecture, planning, politics, city and democratic controversy," in Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios, Autumn Special Issue (Oct/2022), pp. 77-97 (online); "Guarda 100-2010: A importância da inteligibilidade da arquitetura na cidade," in Iberografias, 18, CEI-Guarda, (Nov/2022); "Merec-Guarda: An Energy and Resource Efficiency Process Undermined by the Early Stages of a Democratic Setting," in History, Urbanism, Resilience, Historical Perspectives, 5:81¿ 94. TU Delft, 2016; and "The Square and Its Statue: How a Dictatorship Shaped Tradition and How Architecture Reshaped It in Guarda, Portugal,¿ in TDSR, Fall 2019. She works as an architect and urban planner since 2006, amassing several relevant experiences for her research topics, which have been put forward throughout various presentations. From 2018 until 2021, she was an Educational Assistant at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra under and post-graduate courses, such as Introdução à Arquitectura e à Cidade and Research Seminar. Simultaneously, she has participated in organizing several academic events, projects and exhibitions, such as ARCOHESION: Architecture of Cities/Cities of Regions - A portrait towards cohesive territorial governances in Europe, 2015, within Horizon 20/20 and the IASTE 2018 conference in Coimbra. She was also the editor of the Bulletin of the Internacional Association for Social Sciences in Portuguese Language (AILPCSH).