Laís Maíra Ramalho dos Reis Pettinati (Brazil, 1988) is an Architect and Urban Planner from the Federal University of Viçosa (2013), Master in Project and Heritage from the Postgraduate Programme in Architecture (PROARQ) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2016). She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Doctoral Programme in Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (PDA-FAUP) - Architectural Heritage Profile (2018-present), with the research "Heritage and development in the contemporary city: contributions to the participatory management of the Historic Urban Landscape of the Vale de Massarelos", funded by a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, 2021), with Teresa Cunha Ferreira as supervisor and Teresa Portela Marques and Natália Azevedo as co-supervisors. Since 2020, she has been a collaborating researcher at CEAU-FAUP, where her doctoral research is part of the Heritage of Architecture, the City and the Territory (PACT) group. She has held the UNESCO Chair "Heritage, Cities and Landscapes. Sustainable Management, Conservation, Planning and Design" since 2021. In her professional experience, she worked as an intern at Diálogo Arquitetura & Gestão Cultural (2009-2012/Brazil), where she worked on the development of residential architectural projects, mixed-use buildings, commercial spaces and institutional buildings. She also worked on inventories of properties of interest for conservation and reports on the state of conservation of registered properties. She also completed an internship at Decorum Arquitetura e Interiores (2012 - 2012/Brazil), where she developed residential and commercial architectural projects. As an architect, she worked at Atempo Preservação e Restauro (2013-2014/Brazil) and Astorga Consultoria Planejamento e Gerenciamento de Projetos (2014/Brazil), where she was part of the team carrying out executive restoration projects for listed churches and mansions; At Aevum Reabilitação Urbana e Arquitetônica (2014/Brazil), she worked as co-author as the architect in charge of revising the executive restoration project for a listed baroque church; during her Master's degree, she received a scholarship from the Technical Office of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2014-2015) to manage the restoration work on the roofs and facades of the UFRJ Music School Pavilion. At Construtora AGD (2015-2018/Brazil), she worked as an architect in charge of the management of works, especially public works in institutional buildings and buildings with classified heritage value, including the following: maintenance of the Casa do Padre Faria (Ouro Preto/Brazil); emergency works at the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Mariana/Brazil), restoration and conservation of a historic mansion (São Vicente de Minas/Brazil). She has disseminated her research through oral presentations (10), publications, including book chapters (1), and papers in conference proceedings (3). She has organised national (1) and international (1) conferences. She was awarded an Honourable Mention for her work "Environmental Perception: The Built Environment in the Formation of Citizenship" (2010) by the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, in which she took part as a volunteer in the team during the year (2009 - 2010) and became a scholarship holder responsible for the Extension Project "Environmental Perception: The Built Environment in the Formation of Citizenship" (2010-2011).