David Leite Viana holds a PhD in Urbanism/Spatial Planning from the University Institute of Urban Planning at the University of Valladolid (IUU-UVa, 2008). He was a post-doctoral researcher in Urban Morphology/Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP, 2015). He has a Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) in Architecture and the Modern City from the Higher Technical School of Architecture at the University of Valladolid (ETSA-UVa, 2003), and a Diploma in Architecture from the Porto Higher Artistic School (ESAP, 1999).
He is currently the Head of the Planning Division at Matosinhos City Council (DP-CMM). Academically, he serves as a Professor on the Integrated Master’s Programme in Architecture and Urbanism at Portucalense University (UPT) and as a Researcher in Urbanism at the UPT hub of the Research Centre in Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD-UPT). He also acts as a thesis supervisor for the Doctoral Programme in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories at Iscte-Lisbon University Institute (Iscte-IUL). His leadership roles include serving as Vice-President of the Scientific Council of the Portuguese Network of Urban Morphology (PNUM) and as co-founder and co-coordinator of the International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (FMA Symposia). He sits on the Editorial Board of the Revista de Morfologia Urbana (RMU) and the scientific journal Built Form: Journal of Morphological Research and Practice in Planning, Design and Architecture. Additionally, he is a member of the Scientific Board of Sophia magazine and an editor of Scopio Magazine (both at CEAU/AAI-FAUP).
His previous international experience includes serving as an external professor for the Master’s Programme in Geographic Information Systems Applied to Spatial Planning, Urbanism and Landscape at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV); external examiner for Master’s theses at Chalmers University of Technology; and Visiting Fellow within the Architecture & City Group at TU Delft. He was also a research partner in the ENGAGE Network at Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU) Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Global Heritage. He also served as coordinator of the Urbanism research area at CIAUD-UPT, as Secretary-Director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Porto (CEAUP), as a Professor and Director of the Integrated Master’s in Architecture and Urbanism at Escola Superior Gallaecia (ESG), and as Vice-Director of the Architecture course at ESAP.
He held the position of Deputy to the Councillor for Urban Planning at the Porto City Council.
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