Paulo Alexandre Morgado

Paulo Morgado is a GIScientist passionate about cities and urban planning. Paulo holds a Degree in Geography and Regional Planning from FCSH-UNL, a MSc in Geographic Information Systems, from IST-UTL, and a PhD in Regional and Urban Planning (Geocomputation) from IGOT-ULisboa. Paulo is currently an Assistant Professor at the institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon, a researcher at Centre of Geographical Studies (CEG) and a coordinator of GeoModLAB (http://ceg.ulisboa.pt/geomodlab/?lang=en). At the present moment Paulo is actively involved, and with some tasks coordination responsibilities, in an ongoing research project funded over four million euros (¿ 4.055,730,44). Paulo is also a member of the Applied Geography e GIScience and Systems, of Association of American Geographers and Associação Portuguesa de Geógrafos. Paulo was a visiting researcher at Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis of the University College London (CASA-UCL) and a Visiting Scholar at University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy. His research areas are centered in the field of Theoretical and Quantitative Geography and in a cross-science study on everything related with cities dynamics. More recently, he is focused on Neurocomputing, Smart and Sustainable Cities, Neurourbanism, and cognitive and real-time cities. Paulo supervises several PhD thesis form different PhD courses, and Masters thesis. Paulo has published several articles in international peer-review journals, 4 book chapters and 6 books. He has also received an award for outstanding contribution in reviewing from the Science of the Total Environment journal, Elsevier Amesterdam, Netherlands.