Teresa Olazabal Cabral is an Assistant Professor at the Architecture Faculty of the University of Lisbon (FA/UL). She is the coordinator of the Master's degree in Communication Design and a Permanent Researcher of the Research Centre in Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon (CIAUD-FA/ULisbon). She is a graphic designer (ESBAL, 1991) and has a PhD in Design (Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, 2014) focused on contemporary Portuguese type design, with the support of an individual PhD scholarship granted by the Foundation for Science and Technology. The thesis was supervised by João Paulo Martins and Paulo Vieira Ramalho, and was distinguished with the "Daciano da Costa" merit Prize (FA/UL, 2015). In the areas of Teaching and Research, her greatest interests are Communication Design linked to Culture and Social Problem Solving, and Typography (from 2009 to present). Since 2016, she represents FA-ULisboa in the "ORSIES-Observatory of Social Responsibility and Institutions of Higher Education", a collaborative network of the Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education and the media group Forum Estudante, with the purpose of creating recommendations for public policies, in the scope of Social Responsibility addressed to institutions of higher education. From 2003 she teaches in the Faculty of Architecture several curricular units in the area of Communication Design, both in the Degree in Graphic Design and in the Master in Communication Design (Communication Design I, II and III, Typography, Infography, Editorial Design and Social Design) and since 2016, in the PhD in Design. She is a Member of the scientific committee of the Masters in Communication Design of FA-UL in association with the School of Applied Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (Portugal) and a Member of the scientific committee of the Typography Meetings. Together with Elisabete Rolo and Fernando Moreira da Silva, she organized the seventh "Encontro de Tipografia". (FA-UL, November 2016_http: // 7et.fa.ulisboa.pt). She supervises and co-supervises several Master's dissertations in Communication Design (thirty five completed and ten in progress), has supervised a completed PhD thesis in Design, and is currently supervising three other PhD theses. Extensive professional activity between 1987 and 2009 in the area of Communication Design, mainly in the cultural field. Between 1987 and 2009, she developed her own projects in the areas of visual image, editorial and signage. Between 1990 and 2007, she worked with the designer José Brandão (atelier B2), having collaborated and co-authored numerous projects.