Sérgio Proença
Official Title: Assistant Professor
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Email: sergio.proenca@usj.edu.mo
Short Bio
Sérgio Barreiros Proenca (Lisbon, Portugal, 1977) graduated in 2001 in Architecture at the Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, MSc in Modern and Contemporary Architectural Culture since 2007 and PhD in Urbanism since 2014 with the thesis The diversity of the Street in the city of Lisbon. Morphology and Morphogenesis by the Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade de Lisboa.
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Saint Joseph.
Assistant Professor of the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa. Has supervised or co-supervised 36 MSc and 2 PhD. Currently supervises 3 PhD researches.
Effective researcher of CIAUD and founding member of formaurbis LAB. Researches and publishes regularly about Urban Morphology since 2006. Coordinates the research on The Portuguese Atlantic Seashore Streets. Interpretative reading and Design in Climate Change context. The underlying main idea is the construction of a reference framework for the design of waterfronts adapted to climate change effects from sea-level rise models, addressing an urban space typology that plays a lead role in the mediation between city and sea, converging the research on Urban Morphology (formaurbis LAB / CIAUD / FAUL) and Climate Change (cE3c and IDL / FCiências.ID).
He is part of international scientific committees, has been invited to lecture in other institutions and his academic activity and works in which he participated were acknowledged by different awards.