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I am employed as an Auxiliar Researcher (FCT CEEC) at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon. Before moving to Lisbon I was Marie Curie Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Leeds. I hold a PhD in Human Geography (Cardiff University) and a PhD in Art History (University of Barcelona). My research lies at the intersection of urban and tourism studies. I am an established expert on short-term rentals, tourism-led gentrification and how digital platforms such as Airbnb are restructuring local housing markets. My work has been published in leading international journals such as Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A, Population, Space and Place, Cities, Geoforum and Tourism Management Perspectives, among others; In terms of funding and leadership, I have demonstrated an outstanding ability to obtain competitive research grants as Principal Investigator and Lead Partner. In the past 4 years I received 650,000 euros in research funding from both the European Commission Horizon 2020 program and the FCT. At the University of Lisbon I have led two projects, coordinating a team of 12 colleagues, including the supervision of three post-doctoral researchers. Currently, I supervise 8 PhD students on the fields of tourism mobilities, short-term rentals, and urban change. My aim is to implement policy-oriented research and I have obtained significant impact with non-academic sectors, including policy makers and the media.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Agustin Cocola-Gant

Citation names

  • Cocola-Gant, Agustín

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
AA11-347A-AE22
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3395-4233
Researcher Id
AAA-1114-2021
Scopus Author Id
56899013300

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies
Education
Degree Classification
2018/02/08
Concluded
Human Geography (Doctor of Philosophy)
Cardiff School of Planning and Geography, United Kingdom
"Struggling with the leisure class. Tourism, gentrification and displacement" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Passed with no corrections
2010/11/05
Concluded
Art History (University of Barcelona) (Doctor)
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
"El Barrio Gótico de Barcelona. Planificación del Pasado e Imagen de Marca." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
European Doctor. Cum Laude.
2005/06/30
Concluded
Research in Urban and Heritage Studies (University of Barcelona) (DEA)
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
"La Regeneración del Centro Histórico de Barcelona" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Cum Laude
2003/06/30
Concluded
Art History (University of Seville) (Bachelor)
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
"La Tutela del Patrimonio Histórico en Andalucía" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Excellent. Prize Best Student
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2014/12/01 - 2019/04/30 Tourism-driven gentrification
SFRH/BPD/93008/2013
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023 - 2029 The platform economy, mobile populations, and the rise of a flexible rental market
2022.00929.CEECIND
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Laboratório para a Sustentabilidade do Uso da Terra e dos Serviços dos Ecossistemas
LA/P/0092/2020
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/09/30 SMARTDEST: Cities as mobility hubs: tackling social exclusion through 'smart' citizen engagement
870753
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal
European Commission
Concluded
2021 - 2023/04/30 POLIS: Short-term rentals and housing financialization
H2020-MSCA-IF-2019. ID: 891785
Principal investigator
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Concluded
2018/10 - 2022/09/30 SMARTOUR: Tourism, holiday rentals and rehabilitation
PTDC/GES-URB/30551/2017
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 HOPES - Perspetivas e lutas em torno da habitação. Movimentos, políticas e dinâmicas residenciais em e para além de Lisboa
PTDC/GES-URB/28826/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/01/01 - 2020/01/30 Tourism and Performativity of Local Identity: Nation and Region from a Postcolonial and Gender Perspective
HAR2017-83005-R
Researcher
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro de Estudos Geográficos - Universidade de Lisboa
UID/GEO/00295/2019
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/07/01 - 2019/12/31 Viver em Tempos Financeiros: Habitação e Produção de Espaço no Portugal Democrático
PTDC/ATP-GEO/2362/2014
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/04 - 2019/03 FINHABIT: Inhabiting in Financial Times. Housing and the Production of Space in Democratic Portugal
PTDC/ATP-GEO/2362/2014
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/03/01 - 2019/02/28 AGORA: Encounters between the city and arts: exploring new urbanities
PTDC/ATP-GEO/3208/2014
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. El Barrio Gótico de Barcelona. Planificación del Pasado e Imagen de Marca. Barcelona: Madroño. 2014.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Buhr, Franz; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Buhr, F, & Cocola-Gant, A (2024). Tourism mobilities and urban change: geographies of transnational gentrification.". In New Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies, edited by Wilson, Julie; Müller, D. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2024.
    In press
  2. Franz Buhr; Agustín Cocola-Gant. "Tourism Mobilities and Urban Change". 2024.
    10.4324/9781003286301-37
  3. Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Gago, Ana; Jover, Jaime. "Tourism, gentrification and neighbourhood change: an analytical framework. Reflections from Southern European cities". In The Overtourism Debate. NIMBY, nuisance, commodification, edited by Oskam, Jeroen, 121-135. Emerald, 2020.
    Published
  4. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Tourism, simulacra and architectural reconstruction: selling an idealised past". In Tourism fictions, simulacra and virtualities, edited by Gravari-Barbas, M; Graburn, M; Staszak, N. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2019.
    Published
  5. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Gentrification and displacement: urban inequality in cities of late capitalism". In Handbook of Urban Geography, edited by Schwanen, Tim; Van Kempen, R, 297-310. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.
    Published • 10.4337/9781785364600.00030
  6. Gago, Ana; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "O alojamento local e a gentrificação turística em Alfama, Lisboa". In A nova questão da habitação em Portugal. Uma abordagem da economia política, edited by Cordeiro Santos, Ana, 143-170. Actual, 2019.
    Published
  7. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Gentrificación turística". In Turistificación global. Estudios críticos en turismo, edited by Cañada, E; Murray, I, 291-308. Barcelona: Icaria, 2019.
  8. Palou Rubio, Saida; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Barcelona Cosmopolita. Gènesi i planejament de la ciutat turística". In Barcelona Cosmopolita, 5-39. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2019.
    Published
  9. Malet-Calvo, Daniel; Gago, Ana; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Turismo, negocio inmobiliario y movimientos de resistencia en Lisboa, Portugal". In Ciudad de vacaciones., edited by Milano, C; Mansilla, J., 121-153. Barcelona, Spain: Polen, 2018.
    Published
  10. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Tourism gentrification". In Handbook of Gentrification Studies, edited by Lees, L; Phillips, M, 281-293. Edward Elgar, 2018.
    Published
  11. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "O capitalismo imobiliário e a crise da habitação em Lisboa". In A cidade em reconstrução. Leitura críticas, 2018-2018, edited by Carmo, A; Ascensão, E; Estevens, A, 240-248. Lisboa: Le Monde Diplomatique, 2018.
    Published
  12. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Christine Boyer". In Key Thinkers on Cities, edited by Koch, R.; Latham, A, 45-50. London: SAGE, 2017.
  13. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "La producción de Barcelona como espacio de consumo. Gentrificación, turismo y lucha de clases". In Cartografía de la ciudad capitalista. Transformación urbana y conflicto social en el Estado Español, edited by GEA La Corrala, 31-56. Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2016.
    Published
  14. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Turismo y promoción urbana en la construcción del Barrio Gótico". In Destinació BCN. Història del turisme a la ciutat de Barcelona, 204-213. Barcelona: Efadós, 2016.
    Published
  15. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Monuments and urban stage design in Mussolini's Rome". In A psycho-geographic guide of Rome, edited by Espada, C.; Contreras, C, 39-47. Madrid: AECID, 2013.
Conference abstract
  1. Larrabure, Sara; Queirós, Margarida; Cocola-Gant, Agustín; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo. "Turistificação através de lentes de género: em busca por cidades turísticas inclusivas". Paper presented in XIV Congresso da Geografia Portuguesa, Lisboa, 2023.
    Accepted
  2. Larrabure, Sara; Cocola-Gant, Agustín; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Queirós, Margarida. "The incorporation of gender in tourism research: a bibliometric review between 2010 and 2021". Paper presented in DSOTT'023-Diversity & Sustainability: opportunities and threats to tourism, Lisboa, 2023.
    Accepted
  3. Larrabure, Sara; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Queirós, Margarida; Cocola-Gant, Agustín. "The gender perspective in tourism research: a systematic literature review over the 2016-21 period". Paper presented in UGI-IGU Centennial Congress Paris 2022 «Le temps des géographes / Time for geographers», Paris, 2022.
    Accepted
  4. Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Larrabure, Sara; Buhr, Franz; Cocola-Gant, Agustín. "Analyzing the commercial dynamics arising from gentrification in Misericórdia parish, in Lisbon's historic center". Paper presented in UGI-IGU Centennial Congress Paris 2022 «Le temps des géographes / Time for geographers», Paris, 2022.
    Accepted
  5. Buhr, Franz; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Larrabure, Sara; Cocola-Gant, Agustín. "The infrastructural production of mobile lifestyles: specialty coffee shops as mobility hubs in Lisbon". Paper presented in RC21 Conference ¿Sensing and Shaping the City¿, Antwerpen, 2021.
    Published
  6. Larrabure, Sara; Buhr, Franz; Cocola-Gant, Agustín; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo. "Mobilidades turísticas e dinâmicas comerciais no centro histórico de Lisboa. O caso da freguesia da Misericórdia". Paper presented in XIII Congresso da Geografia Portuguesa, Coimbra, 2021.
    Accepted
Conference paper
  1. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Alojamiento turístico y desplazamiento de población". Paper presented in Contested-Cities, Madrid, 2016.
    Published
  2. Lopez-Gay, Antonio; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Cambios demográficos en entornos urbanos bajo presión turística: el caso del barri gòtic de Barcelona". Paper presented in XV Congreso de la Población Española, Fuerteventura, 2016.
  3. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Tourism and commercial gentrification". Paper presented in RC21 International Conference. The ideal city. Between myth and reality., Urbino, 2015.
    Published
  4. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "La revalorización del gótico y su influencia en el modernismo. Historiografía y restauración en Barcelona". Paper presented in CDF International Conference, 2013.
  5. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "City marketing, tourism and postmodern architecture in Barcelona. Some social consequences". Paper presented in TOURBANISM: 6th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism, 2012.
Edited book
  1. Palou Rubio, Saida; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. Barcelona Cosmopolita. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona. 2019.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Agustín Cocola-Gant; Daniel Malet Calvo. "The Platformization of Student Housing and the Rise of Mid-Term Rentals. The Case of Uniplaces in Lisbon". Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12560.
    10.1111/tesg.12560
  2. Ana Estevens; Agustín Cocola-Gant; Antonio López-Gay; Fabiana Pavel. "The role of the state in the touristification of Lisbon". Cities (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104275.
    10.1016/j.cities.2023.104275
  3. Jaime Jover; Agustín Cocola-Gant. "The Political Economy of Housing Investment in the Short-Term Rental Market: Insights from Urban Portugal". Antipode (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12881.
    10.1111/anti.12881
  4. Agustín Cocola-Gant. "Place-based displacement: Touristification and neighborhood change". Geoforum 138 (2023): 103665-103665. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.103665.
    10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.103665
  5. Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, Myrto; Tulumello, Simone; Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Digital mediated short-term rentals in the (post-) pandemic city". Digital Geography and Society 3 (2022): 100028-100028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2022.100028.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.diggeo.2022.100028
  6. Cocola-Gant, Agustín; Hof, Angela; Smigiel, Christian; Yrigoy, Ismael. "Short-term rentals as a new urban frontier – evidence from European cities". Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53 7 (2021): 1601-1608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x211042634.
    Published • 10.1177/0308518x211042634
  7. Cocola-Gant, Agustín; Jover, Jaime; Carvalho, Luís; Chamusca, Pedro. "Corporate hosts: The rise of professional management in the short-term rental industry". Tourism Management Perspectives 40 4 (2021): 100879. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2021.100879.
    Published • 10.1016/j.tmp.2021.100879
  8. Antonio López-Gay; Agustin Cocola-Gant; Antonio Paolo Russo. "Urban tourism and population change: Gentrification in the age of mobilities". Population, Space and Place 27 1 (2021): e2380. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2380.
    10.1002/psp.2380
  9. Cocola-Gant, A.; Gago, A.. "Airbnb, buy-to-let investment and tourism-driven displacement: A case study in Lisbon". Environment and Planning A 53 7 (2021): 1671-1688. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85071497164&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published • 10.1177/0308518X19869012
  10. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Apartamentos turísticos, Covid-19 e capitalismo de plataformas". Finisterra 55 115 (2020): 211-216. https://revistas.rcaap.pt/finisterra/article/view/20187.
    Open access • Published • 10.18055/FINIS20187
  11. Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Lopez-Gay, Antonio. "Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of ‘foreign only’ enclaves in Barcelona". Urban Studies 57 15 (2020): 3025-3043. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020916111.
    Published • 10.1177/0042098020916111
  12. Estevens, Ana; Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Calvo, Daniel Malet; Matos, Filipe. "Arts and Culture in Lisbon’s Recent Revitalization : Observing Mouraria and Intendente Square through Alternative Local Initiatives as Drivers of Marginal Gentrification". Interventions économiques 63 (2020): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/interventionseconomiques.8647.
    Published • 10.4000/interventionseconomiques.8647
  13. Estevens, Ana; Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Malet-Calvo, Daniel; Matos, Filipe. "As artes e a cultura nas práticas hegemónicas e alternativas na cidade de Lisboa. O caso do Largo do Intendente". Forum Sociológico 35 (2019): 9-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/sociologico.7826.
    Published • 10.4000/sociologico.7826
  14. Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Pardo, Daniel. "Resisting tourism gentrification. The experience of grassroots movements in Barcelona". Urbanistica Tre, Giornale Online di Urbanistica 5 13 (2017): 39-47.
    Open access • Published
  15. Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Durán, Gustavo; Janoschka, Michael. "La ciudad del siglo XXI: políticas públicas urbanas, desplazamientos y contestaciones". Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales 56 (2016): 11-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17141/iconos.56.2016.2351.
    Open access • Published • 10.17141/iconos.56.2016.2351
  16. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "Holiday Rentals: The New Gentrification Battlefront". Sociological Research Online 21 3 (2016): 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.4071.
    Open access • Published • 10.5153/sro.4071
  17. Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Palou Rubio, Saida. "Tourism promotion and urban space in Barcelona. Historic perspective and critical review, 1900-1936". Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica 61 3 (2015): 461-482. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/dag.266.
    Open access • 10.5565/rev/dag.266
  18. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "La "reinvenzione" del Barrio Gótico a Barcellona: nazionalismo e turismo alla metà del XX secolo". STORIA URBANA 142 (2014): 59-75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/su2014-142004.
    Published • 10.3280/su2014-142004
  19. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "The invention of the Barcelona Gothic Quarter". Journal of Heritage Tourism 9 1 (2014): 18-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2013.815760.
    Published • 10.1080/1743873x.2013.815760
  20. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "La fabricación de monumentos antiguos en la era del turismo de masas". E-RPH Revista de Patrimonio Histórico 11 (2012): 1-16. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/35991.
    Published
  21. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "El Barrio Gótico de Barcelona. De símbolo nacional a parque temático". Scripta Nova 15 371 (2011): http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn/sn-371.htm.
    doi.org/10.1344/sn2011.15.3393
  22. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "El MACBA y su función en la marca Barcelona". Ciudad y Territorio. Estudios Territoriales 159 (2009): 87-101. https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/75908.
    Published
Journal issue
  1. Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Hof, Angela; Smiegel, C; Yrigoy, Ismael. "Short-term rentals as a new urban frontier – evidence from European cities". Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53 7 (2021): https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/53/7.
    Published
  2. Cocola-Gant, Agustin; Durán, Gustavo. "La ciudad del siglo XXI: políticas públicas, desplazamientos y contestaciones". Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales 56 (2016): https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/issue/view/143.
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Estevens, Ana; Pavel, Fabiana; Cocola-Gant, Agustín. "Para quem é a reabilitação que se faz em Lisboa? Reabilitação e turismo, uma retórica na procura do lucro.", Le Monde Diplomatique, 2022, https://pt.mondediplo.com/2022/10/para-quem-e-a-reabilitacao-que-se-faz-em-lisboa.html.
  2. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. "O capitalismo imobiliário e a crise da habitação em Lisboa", Le Monde Diplomatique, 2018
Report
  1. Fabiana Pavel; Ana Estevens; Ana Gago; Agustín Cocola-Gant. 2022. O Alojamento Local na cidade de Lisboa. Policy Brief.. https://doi.org/10.33787/CEG20220001.
    10.33787/CEG20220001
  2. Ana Estevens; Fabian Pavel; Agustín Cocola-Gant; António Lopez-Gay. 2022. Reabilitação e turismo na cidade de Lisboa. Policy Brief. https://doi.org/10.33787/CEG20220003.
    10.33787/CEG20220003
  3. Cocola-Gant, Agustin. 2016. Apartamentos turísticos, hoteles y desplazamiento de población. Informe para el debate sobre el nuevo Plan Especial Urbanístico de Regulación de los Alojamientos Turísticos de Barcelona. https://agustincocolagant.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Informe_gotic_final.pdf.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04/25 The changing state of the short-term rental market Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference
Urban Affairs Association (New York, United States)
2023/08/31 The future of housing and dwelling practices in an age of digital platforms. Round Table. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Royal Geographical Society (London, United Kingdom)
2023/04/12 El papel del Estado en la turistificación de Lisboa Red Iberoamericana de Conflictos Urbanos. Congreso Internacional
Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina)
2023/01/17 Tourism mobilities, transient populations, and housing dynamics in Barcelona Transient populations and the city
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/08/31 Tech, real estate, and hospitality: temporary rentals and the consolidation of transnational gentrification European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) Annual Conference
European Network for Housing Research (Barcelona, Spain)
2022/06/23 La consolidación de la industria del alquiler vacacional Like a Lokal Conference
UNEM, Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2022/06/07 The platform economy and the supply-side of the holiday rental market. New layers of intermediation and industry consolidation The 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography
UCD (Dublin, Ireland)
2022/01/11 Touristification in Southern European Coastal Cities Touristification in Southern European Coastal Cities
University of Palermo (Palermo, Italy)
2021/08/31 The promise of profitability: using short-term rental market data to attract real estate investors RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Royal Geographical Society (London, United Kingdom)
2021/07/08 The rise of short-term rental management companies and the hotelization of Airbnb RC21 International Conference
Antwerp University (Antwerp, Belgium)
2021/06/08 The short-term rental market Workshop Actually Existing Platformization
University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2021/03/17 Transient Barcelona: tourists and global gentrifiers in the creative city Transient Barcelona: tourists and global gentrifiers in the creative city
Birkbeck, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2021/03/11 Platform capitalism and the future of short-term rentals Platform capitalism and the future of short-term rentals
Open University of Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
2020/11/07 Overtourism and neighbourhood change. An analytical framework T-Forum Global Conference
Algarve University (Faro, Portugal)
2020/10/27 Short Term Rentals in Lisbon within and beyond the pandemic Short-term rentals (STRs) impacting housing and impacted by Covid-19. International Workshop
Institute for Urban Research, Malmö University (Malmo, Sweden)
2020/06/05 Touristification in Barcelona Tourism as a development strategy: the rise of the paradigm, consequences and future prospects
Sapienza University of Rome – Faculty of Engineering, Department DICEA (Rome)
2019/09/17 Airbnb, buy-to-let investment and loss of place. The case of Lisbon ATLAS Annual Conference
ATLAS (Girona)
2019/07/12 Governing and planning urban tourism and mobilities in the 21st century city. Round Table together with Raoul Bianchi; Johannes Novy; Paolo Russo; and Claire Colomb. AESOP International Conference
(Venice)
2019/07/09 Place-based Displacement: Exploring the Impacts of Tourism in a Residential Area AESOP Annual Conference
(Venice)
2019/06/20 Airbnb and buy-to-let investment A transformative municipalism? Barcelona’s experience in perspective
Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona)
2018/09/26 Lifestyle migrants in tourist cities ATLAS Annual Conference
(Copenhagen)
2018/07/13 Place-based displacement. Residents’ perceptions of urban tourism Competing for urban space: neighbourhood change and population dynamics
Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona)
2018/06/28 Urban planning, national identity and historic heritage Art and Dictatorships
Humboldt-Universität Berlin (Berlin)
2018/01/26 Tourism, housing and real estate investment Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Political Economy
(Lisbon)
2017/11/14 The socio-spatial impacts of short-term rentals Touristification. Impacts and alternatives
University of Seville (Seville)
2017/09/11 Transnational gentrification and tourism: Western Europeans and North Americans as pioneer gentrifiers in Barcelona RC21 International Conference
(Leeds)
2017/07/04 Tourism, authenticity, and architectural reconstruction: an historic perspective Architecture and tourism. Fictions, simulacra, virtualities
Paris Sorbone (Paris)
2016/10/25 Airbnb and displacement Anti-gentrification practices in Southern Europe
Three University of Rome (Rome)
2016/08/30 Urban tourism. New questions for gentrification research RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
(London)
2016/07/04 Alojamiento turístico y desplazamiento de población Contested-Cities International Conference
(Madrid)
2016/05/31 Holiday apartments and displacement of communities. New challenges for public policy Symposium UPE 12. International Urban Planning and Environment Association
(Lisbon)
2015/08/27 Tourism and commercial gentrification RC21 International Conference
(Urbino)
2015/03/31 Struggling with the leisure class. Tourism, gentrification and displacement Stadkolloquium. Urban Laboratory. University College London
(London)
2014/11/14 Tourism and urban planning in Barcelona. An historic perspective The history of tourism in Barcelona
Barcelona City Council (Barcelona)
2013/06/26 La revalorización del gótico y su influencia en el modernismo. Historiografía y restauración en Barcelona CDF International Conference
(Barcelona)
2012/01/25 City marketing, tourism and postmodern architecture in Barcelona. Some social consequences TOURBANISM: 6th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism
(Barcelona)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/01/01 - 2027/06/01 Nómadas digitais em Lisboa: Motivações e praticas de consumo na cidade turística. Orientador de Catarina Belo
Supervisor
Doutoramento em Turismo (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2022/01/01 - 2026/01/01 Airbnb in Rio de Janeiro. Oriendator de Pedro Ferreira.
Supervisor
Doutoramento em Geografia Humana (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Plataformas digitales como un nuevo actor multiescalar en la reconfiguración del espacio. El caso de Airbnb. Orientador de Miguel McCormick
Co-supervisor
DOCTORADO EN GEOGRAFÍA Y ORDENACIÓN TERRITORIAL (PhD)
Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31 The political economy of short-term rental management in Vienna. Orientador de Ynnon Roher.
Co-supervisor
Doutoramento em Geografia (PhD)
Salzburg University, Austria
2022/02/01 - 2025/09/30 A plataformização da hospitalidade: um estudo transcultural do Airbnb à luz da economia de plataforma. Orientador de Rebeka Coelho.
Co-supervisor
Economia (PhD)
Centro Universitário do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
2021/02/01 - 2025/01/31 Regulating short-term rentals-based platform capitalism: A comparative assessment among European cities. Orientador de Gianluca Bei
Co-supervisor
Doutoramento em Geografia Humana (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31 The experiences of women living in Lisbon city centre: tourism, urban change and everyday life. Orientador de Sara Larrabure
Supervisor
Geografia Humana (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Airbnb and the right to the city. Orientador de Ana Gago
Supervisor of Ana Gago
Geografia Humana (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2022/10/05 - 2023/07/11 Technology Adoption in the Short-Term Rental Property Management Industry
Supervisor
Mestrado em Turismo e Comunicação (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2023/05/31 Post-doctoral supervision of Franz Buhr. Researcher at the SMARTDEST project
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2022/10/31 AIRBNB EM LISBOA - DA PARTILHA À PROFISSIONALIZAÇÃO DO ALOJAMENTO LOCAL
Supervisor
Turismo e Comunicação (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2020/05/01 - 2022/05/01 Post-doctoral supervision of Ana Estevens at SMARTOUR project
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2019/01/17 - 2020/07/31 The sharing economy and social inequalities. Airbnb hosts in Lisbon and Porto
Co-supervisor of Benjamin Konstant
Social and Economic Geography (Master)
Universität Leipzig, Germany
2019/05/01 - 2019/10/31 Post-doctoral supervision of Jaime Jover at SMARTOUR project
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2019/09/13 Urban regeneration and securitisation of space in Lisbon
Co-supervisor of Antoine Mandoux
Geografia Humana: Globalização, Sociedade e Território (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2019/09/09 Housing Financialization in Lisbon Historical Centre
Supervisor of Gloria Dominguez
Geografia Humana: Globalização, Sociedade e Território (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2016/11/01 - 2018/04/04 Short-term rentals and tourism gentrification in Lisbon
Co-supervisor of Ana Gago
Turismo e Comunicação (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/09/04 - 2023/09/07 Session Organizer: The rise of corporate hosts in the short-term rental market and its impact on housing and places (2023 - 2023)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Universitat de Barcelona Departament de Geografia, Spain
2021/08/31 - 2021/09/01 Session Organizer: RGS-IBG. Annual International Conference. Airbnb and platform real estate: exploring the supply-side and organisation of the short-term rental market (2021/08/31 - 2021/09/01)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom
2017/09/11 - 2017/09/13 Session Organizer: RC21 International Conference. Holiday rentals and the right to housing (2017/09/11 - 2017/09/13)
Congress (Co-organisor)
University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/10/24 La crisis turística de los barrios de Barcelona: entre gentrificación y falta de convivencia
(Thesis) Main arguer
Mendoza, G (PhD)
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
2023/09/27 Gentrificación y segregación residencial en ciudades españolas en globalización. Un estudio sociohistórico y comparado de los centros de Madrid, Barcelona y Valencia
(Thesis) Main arguer
Mazzorra, A (PhD)
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
2022/06/22 Tourism and its implication in theoretical criminology: a shift towards social disorganization
(Thesis) Main arguer
Diego Maldonado (PhD)
Universidad de Cadiz Departamento de Derecho Internacional Público Penal y Procesal, Spain
2022/01/12 Assessing the sharing economy characteristics and social impacts of peer-to-peer accommodation on host communities: an analysis of Airbnb and Fairbnb.coop
(Thesis) Main arguer
Marina Petruzzi (PhD)
ISCTE Business School, Portugal
2021/10/14 Airbnb in the real estate financial chain. Housing and policies in Southern European post-crisis territories
(Thesis) Main arguer
Chiara Iacovone (PhD)
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
2019/07/22 Tourism, gentrification and residential mobilities. The case of Barcelona
(Thesis) Arguer
Joan Sales (PhD)
2019/05/23 New ruins: the failure of tourism urbanisation projects in Portugal and Brazil
(Thesis) Arguer
D’Angelis, M (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/07/02 - 2024/07/05 IMISCOE Annual Conference. International Migration Research Network Lisboa
2023/09/11 - 2023/09/13 3rd Digital Geographies Conference Lisbon
2023/05/22 - 2023/05/23 8th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy Vienna
2021/09/01 - 2021/10/29 XIII International Tourism Congress Estoril School of Hospitality
2020/07/01 - 2020/07/03 7th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy Barcelona
2018/03/15 - 2018/03/16 Short-term tourism rentals: Observation, regulations and labour reconfigurations EIREST, Paris 1 Sorbonne University

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/01/01 - 2022/12/15 Consultant for the European Commission on the "Study on National Regulatory Approaches to Short-Term Accommodation Services". European Commission, Belgium

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/07/01 - 2024/07/05 Summer School Short-term rentals Sveleucili¿te u Splitu Sveucili¿ni odjel za strucne studije, Croatia
2019/09/15 - 2021/05/31 PhD Seminar Doutoramento em Turismo (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2019/07/20 - 2021/01/19 Tourism Geography Turismo e Comunicação (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2019/09/15 - 2021/01/18 Regional Geography (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2020/01/15 - 2020/06/15 Buenos Aires Field Trip (Bachelor) University of Leeds Faculty of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
2020/01/26 - 2020/06/04 Critical Urban Studies (Bachelor) University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2015/01/30 - 2019/05/31 Urban Tourism and Gentrification Geografia Humana: Globalização, Sociedade e Território (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2018/11/05 - 2018/11/10 Airbnb and tourism gentrification (Master) Universität Leipzig, Germany
2018/01/29 - 2018/06/30 Geografía Urbana (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
2017/01/30 - 2017/06/30 Geografia Social e Cultural (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 Special Honour, University of Lisbon Best Researcher Award in the field of Geography and Planning
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 Best Paper Presentation Award, ATLAS Conference
2004 Prize Best Student. Degree History of Art
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Title

2010 Awarded European PhD
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain