Jorge Ferreira is Assistant Professor at the Geography and Regional Planning Department of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH). Holds a PhD in Geography and Regional Planning, specialization in New Technologies in Geography. He develops R&D in CICS.NOVA - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences. He is author of several publications including chapters of books and articles and has published in several national and international conference proceedings. Jorge Ferreira has also been advisor of several graduated students (Master’s and PhD) on academic and scientific works. He is regularly invited for scientific committees on International Conferences, as referee in several journals and has been involved in national and international projects as coordinator, collaborator and expert observer.

Research Interests:

Geography Information Technologies. Geography of Criminality. Geography of Health. Geography of the Society of Knowledge. Digital Cartography and GeoDesign.

Main Projects:

• 2017/2018 - Forecast and Spatial Analysis Model for Public Security. Membro da equipa de investigação. (IPRI, IMS);
• 2017/2018 - Contar, Descrever e Mapear as Populações Coloniais Portuguesas desde 1750: Um Portal Integrado. Consultor de projeto. CMA - Centro de Matemática e Aplicações (FCT/UNL);
• 2013 - “Europeana Cloud: Unlocking Europe’s Research via The Cloud”. Membro colaborador na qualidade de perito/observador internacional. Rede de boas práticas Europeias na área das Ciências Sociais financiada ao abrigo do Objectivo 2.1 e coordenado pela Europeana Foundation;
• 2007/2008 - RECTIG - Recursos Científicos e Didácticos em Tecnologias de Informação Geográfica. Programa POS_Conhecimento - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia;
• 2002/2005 - Factor Humano nos Acidentes Rodoviários de Maior Gravidade em Portugal. e-Geo / Direcção Geral de Viação.

• (2017) - A Geografia da Sociedade da Informação – O percurso de Portugal. Novas edições Académicas, OmniScfriptum Publishing Group, ISBN: 978-620-2-03718-1;
• (2017) - Arvela, A., Ferrão, J., Ferreira, J. et all. Green Infrastructure, climate change and spatial Planning: Learning lessons across borders, ed. in Journal of Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, Volume 5, issue 3. ISSN-L: 2183-1912;
• (2016) - Samora-Arvela, A., Ferrão, J. Ferreira, J., Oliveira, R., Panagopoulos, T., Vaz, E. Infraestrutura verde e alterações climáticas: um contributo para a mitigação e adaptação do território às alterações climáticas. In García Marín, R.; Alonso Sarría, F.; Belmonte Serrato, F.; Moreno Muñoz, D. (Eds.) XV Coloquio Ibérico de Geografía. Retos y tendencias de la Geografía Ibérica, 7-9 de Nomvembro, Murcia, pp. 376-381, Universidad de Murcia-AGE-APG. ISBN: 978-84-944193-4-4;
• (2016) - Ferreira, J., Santos, T. Georreferencing Country Codes Top Level Domains (.pt) in Lisbon City. Spatial Analysis of Urban Innovation. In Proceedings of the 10^th ECISM 2016, European Conference on Information Systems Management, Évora . ISSN (print version): 2048-8912; ISSN (E-book): 2048-8920, ISBN (print version): 978-1-911218-05-0. ISBN (E-book): 978-1-911218-06-7. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, Reading, UK. Pp 156-165;
• (2012) - Ferreira, J. et all. “GIS for Crime Analysis: Geography for Predictive Models.” In The Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, Vol. 15 Issue 1, ISSN 1566-6379, Academic Publishing, Reading, UK, pp. 36.49.