Raquel Faria de Deus is graduated in Geography from Universidade de Coimbra in 2002 and completed a Ph.D. degree in Geography and Territorial Planning – specialization in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (UNL) in 2015, which was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and awarded the 2015-2016 National Prize of Geography Orlando Ribeiro from the Portuguese Association of Geographers. She is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to Geography and fostering research and action processes at local level. Her scientific and academic path has been based on two important dimensions: she is a Human Geographer and a GIS and Remote Sensing expert. Both aspects of her work are critical, and she work to maintain both interdisciplinary connections in Geography. 

Research Interests:

Urban Planning; LULC change; Spatial Modelling; GIS; Remote Sensing.

Main Projects:

• Membro da equipa de investigação do projecto Plataforma Model Costa 2025: Desenvolvimento de uma Plataforma para a modelação prospectiva multiescalar dos processos de urbanização nas áreas costeiras, entre 2011 e 2014, no âmbito da parceria e-GEO (FCSH-UNL) sob a coordenação de Professor Doutor José António Tenedório e Universidade Politécnica da Catalunha sob a coordenação do Professor Doutor Josep Roca Cladera. Entidade financiadora: Plano Nacional I+D+I, Ministério da Ciência e Inovação de Espanha. Barcelona Tech (Universidade Politécnica da Catalunha) e Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Referência do projecto: CSO 2009-09057. Link: http://www-cpsv.upc.es/GLOBUS/Research_Projects_ModelCosta.html. O financiamento do projecto foi de 138.639,52€.

• Faria De Deus, Raquel; Tenedório, José António and Moix Bergadà, Montserrat (2012). Urban sprawl in Portugal based on urban systems spatial boundaries. ACE: Architecture, City and Environment = Arquitectura, Ciudad y Entorno [online]. 2012, 7. P. 131-148. ISSN 1886-4805, revista indexada SCOPUS;
• Jorge Baptista e Silva, Raquel Faria de Deus & José António Tenedório (2012). Paying as the urban areas grow – implementing and managing urban development charges using a GIS application, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis, p.1-17.(2010 Impact Factor: 1.489; Five-Year Impact Factor: 2.162), revista indexada ISI/Scopus;
• Rodrigues, António; Santos, Teresa; de Deus, Raquel Faria; Pimentel, Dulce (2012). Land-use Dynamics at the Micro Level: Constructing and Analyzing Historical Datasets for the Portuguese Census Tracts. B. Murgante et al. (Eds.): ICCSA 2012, Part II, LNCS 7334, pp. 565-577. Computer Science. Springer, Heidelberg, (designação da editora: Book Chapter), Actas indexadas ISI/SCOPUS;
• Magarotto, M. G.; Costa, M. F.; Faria de Deus, R; Masanet, E (2017). Green Areas in Coastal Zones – conflicts of interests and actors’ perspectives, International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, Volume 12, Issue 8, p. 1260–1271,l Paper DOI: 10.2495/SDP-V12-N8-1260-1271, revista indexada SCOPUS.