Costa Tavares Alice

Alice Tavares is an architect (FAUP, 1993), Researcher at the RISCO Research Unit – University of Aveiro (UA), Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at the UA (Heritage Rehabilitation Course) and post-doctoral fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) since 2015. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Aveiro (UA) in 2015 within the scope of Integrated Strategies for the Rehabilitation of Built Heritage, having carried out research at the University of Bath (UK) under the guidance of Prof. Dina D’Ayala (2010). She advises doctoral (Lebanon), post-doctoral (Brazil) and master’s (Portugal) students. She is the author of books, book chapters and articles on Heritage Rehabilitation, earth construction and collaborates as a researcher in national and international research projects and with technical teams from the UA of building inspection. She was president of the Board of Directors of the Núcleo de Arquitetos de Aveiro (1999-2005), worked as an architect between 1993 and 2010, was a Research Fellow at FEUP between 2011 and 2015. She has coordinated and participated in Organizing and Scientific Committees of national and international conferences and coordinates protocols between DEC-UA and Portuguese municipalities and foreign entities. She is currently Member of the National Board of Directors of the Order of Architects, is Coordinator of the Sísmica Group of the Order of Architects, is President of the Portuguese Association for Urban Rehabilitation and Heritage Protection (APRUPP), is President of CICOP.Net Portugal (Florence, Italy) and member of the organizations Portuguese Society of Earthquake Engineering (SPES) and European Center for Urban Risks (CERU). Participates in the COST Action TD1406 –Innovation in Intelligent Management of Heritage Buildings. She is a researcher in the following projects: “SafEarth: Seismic protection of earthen construction heritage”; CemRestore, funded by FEDER – COMPETE – FCT funds (2018-2020); Seismic-V: Vernacular seismic culture in Portugal (2013-2015).