Rita Assoreira Almendra is a Full Professor in Design since 2023. She teaches at Lisbon University, Lisbon School of Architecture (FAUL). She has an Aggregation in Design (Managing Design) and her PhD in Design (Design cognition) was concluded in 2010 in FAUL; Her master in Design Management wasfinished in 2004 in Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Empresariais and she has also an MBA with marketing specialization, finished in 2002 from the same school. Her graduation in Design from Technical University of Lisbon dates from 1998. She started as a lecturer at FAUL in 2000, become assistant professor in 2010 and associated professor in 2016. She is the Head of the Project Design Department, was member of the Scientific Council until the end of 2023 (she was the Vice-president of the Scientific Council until 2021); Furthermore, she coordinates the Design Doctoral program and the 3rd Cycle (Architecture Program, Urbanism Program and Design Program); In addition she coordinates the nucleous of Design and she is a Researcher at CIAUD - Research center of FAUL. She was also the Co-Coordinator of the master Program of Museology, Heritage and TIC- a master in association with IPTomar; She was a Professor at the 'Dottorato di Ricerca Internazionale in Design e Innovazione' an international Design PhD program with the participation of Italy and Spain, Professor at the Doctoral Program of Sciences of Sustainability from University of Lisbon; She published over 20 articles in journals; 50 book chapters, she has 2 co-authored book(s)and she is the editor of 4 book; She has 70 papers published in conference's proceedings; She supervised 20 PhD theses already finished and has 20 more on-going (with other supervisors); supervised more than 70 MSc dissertations. She has been a member of more than 100 Master jury and of 45 PhD Defence Jury; She organized several conferences; She was a member of multiple Scientific committees of journals and conferences; She is a reviewer of a variety of conferences and a few publications. She is a member of FCT's doctoral studentship in the Design area; She was also member of the jury of Lisbon university's doctoral studenship in design; Invited evaluator for PRIN - research projects funded by Italian Ministry for Research; She was (and still is) a member of 28 juries from 8 different schools to select candidates to the position of assistant professors/associate professor (university) and adjunct professors/Coordinator Professor (Polytechnics); She was granted with an FCT doctoral scholarship; Has received 4 awards and/or honors. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Design education; Design research, Social Design; Design processes; sustainable Design; Design management; Innovation; creativity; data analysis; Knowledge transfer; Competitiveness and innovation; Collaboration; participatory design; co-criation; service Design.