Leonor Matos Silva is a PhD in architecture (2019) from ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon under a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT-Portugal) with a thesis about the teaching of architecture in its pre- vs post-revolutionary form (the Lisbon case) and the interplay between architecture school and its cultural milieu. She is an Integrated Researcher and a member of the Scientific Council of DINÂMIA’CET - Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and the Territory (ISCTE-IUL). She also holds an Integrated MA in architecture (2011) and a 6-year degree (pre-Bologna) in interior architecture (2004), both from the FAUL-Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. Co-PI of the funded R&D exploratory project “WomArchStruggle - Women architects in former Portuguese colonial Africa: gender and struggle for professional recognition (1953-1985)”. Former post-doctoral research fellow and researcher within the funded R&D project “MCMH - Middle-Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia”, Leonor’s scientific output comprises articles in journals and sections of books, various communications, and the edition of journals and books. Member of the COST-Action “Making Young Researchers’ Voices Heard for Gender Equality (VOICES)” [CA 20137] and also a member of the COST-Action “European Middle-Class Mass Housing (MCMH-EU)” [CA 18137] of which she held a Grant Holder Manager position. Leonor was responsible for the coordination of the international conference “Optimistic Suburbia 2” (16-19 June 2021, ISCTE-IUL). She has been commissioned to work on the funded R&D project “Coast to Coast - Late Portuguese Infrastructural Development in Continental Africa (Angola and Mozambique)”. Additionally, Leonor is an invited researcher of the group “What Education? Architecture, Teaching and Research” in the funded R&D project “(EU)ROPA Rise of Portuguese Architecture” (CES/III-University of Coimbra). Leonor cooperates with the FAUL under a nominal agreement for the research and disclosure of its pedagogical archives (Informed Consent, dated 01/09/2019).