Vítor Ribeiro
President of the Local Organization Committee
Vitor Ribeiro is an Auxiliary Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography of the Social Sciences Institute, University of Minho, Portugal. His main scientific interests are GIS, immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, and remote sensing.
Alexandra Esteves
Alexandra Esteves is an Associate Professor with Habilitation in the Department of History at the University of Minho. Her research focuses on topics within the domains of Social History—namely health, disease, welfare, marginality, violence, and prisons—and the History of Tourism and Sociability, addressing issues related to leisure, institutions, and social relations from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Joana Sequeira
Joana Sequeira is an Assistant Researcher in History at Lab2PT/In2PAST, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal. Her research focuses on the social and economic history of the 13ᵗʰ to 16ᵗʰ centuries, with particular emphasis on textile and dress production and consumption, material culture, mercantile networks and Mediterranean trade, craft practices and their regulation, as well as mercantile and urban accounting systems.
Conference Support Team
Bárbara Marques
Bárbara is a student in of Civil Protection and Territorial Management at the Geography Department, University of Minho, and works as a GIS technician at ESRI – Portugal, in the Defense, Maritime, and Security sector. Her scientific interests include GIS, Civil Protection, Geography, Land Planning and Management, Defense and Security, Creative Tourism, and GIS in education.
Carla Rouceiro
Carla Rouceiro has a Master's Degree in Geography, in the area of Territorial Planning and Management, from the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (2021). She also has a degree in Geography and Planning from the same university (2018). Her master’s dissertation, entitled “Resident’s perception of tourism in Arcos de Valdevez” allowed her to apply in a more practical way the knowledge acquired both in her bachelor’s and master’s degree, namely on the fields of Statistics and Cartography. Her main scientific interests are Sustainable Tourism and Cultural and Creative Tourism.
Ângela Ferreira
Ângela Ferreira is a senior technician at the Municipality of Amares, Portugal. She holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Geography from the University of Minho. Her main research interests include Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Cultural and Creative Tourism. Braga.
Virgínia Abreu
Virginia is a student in Civil Protection and Territorial Management at the Geography Department, University of Minho and works at the National Republican Guard – Nature and Environment Protection Service as a Forest Guard. Her scientific interests include land planning and management, civil protection, and environmental preservation.
Sara Cunha
Sara Cunha is a Geographer currently serving at Felgueiras City Council, Portugal, where she leads municipal GIS initiatives/project. She holds a master’s degree in Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Planning from the University of Porto, Portugal (2010). Her principal areas of scientific interest include Municipal GIS, Urban Planning, Urban Mobility and Smart Territories