Research Group
Research Group
Research Group
DINÂMIA'CET-IUL
Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies
Assistant Researcher
Susana Azevedo
research interests
Architecture, physical environment, quality of live, health
Short Bio
Susana Azevedo is an architect, a PhD student in architecture at Iscte and an integrated researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-IUL. Collaborates with the Iscte-Health mission team. Her research work has been focused on the relationship between architecture and health.
Before joining Iscte, she was a researcher at the Laboratório de Engenharia Civil and at the Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge (2010-2014). Collaborated in two (inter)disciplinary research projects: ENVIRH Environment and Health in children day care centres (PTDC/SAU-ESA/100275/2008); GERIA - Geriatric Study in Portugal on Health Effects of Air Quality in Elderly Care Centers (PTDC/SAU-SAP/116563/2010). In 2012 completes her Master's in Architecture, in the scientific area: Built Spaces and Health at the School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. Her work as a researcher has been funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).
research project at dinâmia'cet-Iscte
Project CArElderly - Comfortable Architecture for Elderly
Main publications
Effect of indoor air quality of day care centers in children with different predisposition for asthma.Pedro Carreiro-Martins, Ana Luisa Papoila, Iolanda Caires, Susana Azevedo, Maria Manuela Cano, Daniel Virella, Paula Leiria-Pinto, João Paulo Teixeira, José Rosado-Pinto, Isabella-Annesi Maesano, Nuno NeuparthPediatric Allergy and Immunology - May 2016 Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 299–306.
Numerical evaluation of ventilation performance in children day care centresJoão Carlos Viegas, Susana Nogueira, Daniel Aelenei, Hildebrando Cruz, Manuela Cano, Nuno NeuparthBuilding Simulation: An International Journal - April 2015 Volume 8, Issue 2, pages 189–209.
Caracterização Experimental das Taxas de Renovação Horária em Residências para as Pessoas Idosas - Resultados Preliminares do Projecto GERIAAelenei, D.; Nogueira, S.; Viegas, J.; Mendes, A.; Cano, M.; Cerqueira,F.5.ª CONFERÊNCIA SOBRE PATOLOGIA E REABILITAÇÃO DE EDIFÍCIOS, 26 - 28 de Março, Porto, Portugal (2015).
Contribuição para o conhecimento da qualidade do ar interior em lares de idosos em Portugal. Determinação do teor de CO2 e de taxas de ventilação.Susana Nogueira, César Sobreira, Daniel Aelenei, João Viegas.Conferência Internacional sobre Envelhecimento - CISE 2013, 22 Novembro, Lisboa, Portugal (2013).
Environment and health in children day care centres ISBN: 978-989-98576-1-2
Main projects
GERIA - Geriatric study in Portugal on Health Effects of Air Quality in Elderly Care Centers (PTDC/SAU-SAP/116563/2010)
ENVIRH - Environment and Health in Children Day Care Centers (PTDC/SAU-ESA/100275/2008)
CArElderly - Comfortable Architecture for Elderly (SFRH/BD/109903/2015)
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