Joana Nunes is an architect, a research assistant at DINÂMIA'CET-IUL and a research fellow at “ArchNeed – The Architecture of Need: Community Facilities in Portugal 1945-1985” (PTDC/ART-DAQ/6510/2020), at CIDEHUS – University of Évora.

She is currently developing a PhD in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and holds a MS in Architecture (2015) and a MS in Building Rehabilitation – Non-Structural Rehabilitation of Buildings (2017), both from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra.

Between 2018 and 2020 Joana was a research fellow at “CuCa_RE: Cure and Care_the Rehabilitation” (PTDC/ATP-AQI/2577/2014), at Instituto Superior Técnico – University of Lisbon.

She collaborated with Docomomo International between 2016 and 2017.