Patrícia Bento d'Almeida is a postdoctoral fulltime Integrated Researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte (DC), Centre for Socioeconomic Change and Territorial Studies, a research unit from Iscte -Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. From may2017-june2023 she secured a FCT-postdoctoral fellowship (rank 1 ex aequo/22 applicants) develop a postdoctoral project, "The Portuguese National Laboratory for Civil Engineering and the History of Research in Architecture". Graduated in Architecture by Universidade Lusíada (2000), she did the last year of her course at Università degli Studi di Firenze (ERASMUS, 1999-2000). She completed her PhD in Contemporaneous Art History in 2013/10/29 by Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas and her Master in Art History in 2007/06/21 by the same University. Patrícia secured 3 FCT individual fellowships: Post-Doc/2017(SFRH/BPD/117167/2016); PhD/2007 (SFRH/BD/36097/2007); and MSc/2004 (SFRH/BM/16971/2004). In 2005 she was invited to integrate the research project "Inquiry into Twentieth-Century Architecture in Portugal" ("Inquérito à Arquitetura do Século XX em Portugal - IAP XX"), an ambitious initiative of the Portuguese Architect´s Association (Ordem dos Arquitectos), in partnership with the Portuguese Art Institute and the Mies Van der Rohe Foundation, to identify the Portuguese architectural heritage from the 20th century. In 2013 she assured a researcher position within the research project "MEMO - Evolution of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area Metabolism" (PTDC/EMS-ENE/2197/2012): Research Grant (BI/05/2013). Patrícia successfully contributed to securing funding for 2 interdisciplinary competitive projects, integrating the team during it application: "Printed Photography. Image and Propaganda in Portugal (1934-1974)" (PTDC/CPC-HAT/4533/2014), 2016, project amount: 139.965,00 EUR; and "SPLACH - Spatial Planning for Change" (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016431), 2017-2021, project amount: 1.877.408,93 EUR. She is a Facilitator Member of DC's Innovation and Transition to Sustainable Societies thematic line (since 2019) and a Network Member of UEDXX - Urbanism of European Dictatorships during the XXth Century Scientific Network (since 2013). Patrícia was Visiting Professor at ISCTE-IUL (2020/2021) and Invited Assistant Professor at Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra (2015/2016), at the Department of Architecture. She was co-editor of 2 numbers of the academic journal CIDADES Comunidades e Territórios (Special Number Sp21 and Thematic Dossier Nº41) and currently she is co-editor of PASSAGENS journal (since 2022, ongoing). Patrícia was co-autor of the book "Atlas of the Food System: Challenges for a Sustainable Transition of the Lisbon Region" (Springer 2022), co-author of the book "Victor Palla e Bento d'Almeida. Arquitectura de outro tempo" (Caleidóscopio, 2017) and author of the book "Bairro(s) do Restelo. Panorama Urbanístico e Arquitectónico" (Caleidóscopio, 2015). She published several scientific articles in national and international journals with peer review, having received 2 Scientific Awards by Iscte (2017). She also disseminated her research works through specialized journals, books, and architectural exhibitions, namely as a curator (2017,2023) and/or as a consultant (2019). As an expert in urban and architectural history of Restelo (Lisbon's housing neighbourhood), she was interviewed by Monocle international magazine (2021), Architects Association (2021), and the newspapers Público (2021) and Jornal de Negócios (2017). She works in the area(s) of Humanities with emphasis on Art History, Urban Studies and Architecture. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural outputs are: "Urbanism"; "Architecture"; "Lisbon"; "Palla"; "Bento d'Almeida"; "Architecture Archives"; "Architecture Surveys"; "Architecture and Urban Studies Scientific Research"; "History of Science"; "LNEC"; "Urban Metabolism".