Mariana Correia has a PhD in World Heritage Conservation from Oxford Brookes University, UK; an Earthen Architecture Post-Graduate Diploma from CRAterre-ENSAG, France; Post-graduate Studies on Cultural Routes from the Council of Europe; and a Masters & Architecture degree from Lisbon University, Portugal.
Dean of Architecture and Multimedia Gallaecia Department at Portucalense University, she lectures ‘Theory and History of Conservation and Restoration’, and ‘Adaptation to Climate Change’. She was Project-Leader of FCT research project Seismic-V and the European Research Projects 3DPAST & VerSus, distinguished by the European Commission as a ‘success story’.
She is an World Heritage Consultant, was an ICOMOS WH advisor, and did several World Heritage Reactive Monitoring, Technical Evaluation, Advisory and Upstream missions in Africa, Europe, Middle-East and Asia. As a World Heritage instructor, she taught in courses for UNESCO, ICOMOS, ICCROM, IUCN, AWHF, and ARC-WH. She did several technical and scientific reviews for ICOMOS, WH International Assistance Fund, World Monument Watch, FNRS-Belgium, CONACYT-Mexico, and SNSF-Swiss.
She was elected ICOMOS-Portugal Advisory Board President (2021-2023), ICOMOS-ISCEAH President (2018-2020), CAT Steering Committee for Aga Khan (2015-2018), and PROTERRA Coordinator (2011-2014). Presently, she coordinates the Task-force team in charge of developing a Doctrinal ICOMOS Charter for the Preservation of Earthen Architectural Heritage (2022-2026).
She is an ICOMOS-ISCEAH Board member (2018-2026), ICOMOS-CIAV expert, and was invited to be a WH Task Force of ICOMOS-Climate Action Working Group, and a Board member of three Heritage & Art Foundations (FAFB, FBAC & FCO). Author of 2 books; 10 World Heritage mission reports; co-editor of 22 books; wrote more than 200 chapters & papers; gave classes, conferences & keynote openings in English, French, Spanish & Portuguese, in more than 35 countries. She was awarded with the European Prize of Architectural Heritage Intervention (2017 AADIPA, cat.D).