Academic profile

 

Professor Silva is a British-Portuguese dual citizen and she has a research track record of 25+ years, both at the public and private sector and specialized in spatial analysis and planning.   Prof.  Silva started working in Cambridge, at the Department of Land Economy, as a University Lecturer - Assistant Professor (2006-2012), was Tenured (2009), Senior Lecturer - Associate Professor (2012-2017), Reader-Professor in Spatial Planning (2017-2020), Full Professor (from October 2020). She was the first Female to be promoted to Senior Lecturer, Reader, and Professor in the Department's history.

Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute http://www.rtpi.org.uk

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences : www.acss.org.uk

 

Editorial Board member:

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS)

Planning Theory & Practice 

Sustainable Development

 

 

 

Teaching

 

She lectures and is the course coordinator of: in "Urban and Environmental Planning I" (PGR01) and "Spatial Analysis and Modelling"


 

Research interests

 

 

Prof. Silva research interests are centred on the application of new technologies to spatial planning in particular city and metropolitan dynamic modelling through time. Subject areas include:  Urban Planning, Land Use, Transportation, Spatial Analysis, Data Science & Big Data, Complexity Theory, Smart/Digital Cities, Geographic Information Systems and Planning Support Systems; Space-time dynamic models, Computation and Dynamic Simulation - soft Artificial Intelligence, AI Models (particularly, NN, ABM and CA models). 

 


 

Publications

 

Key publications: 

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Current PhD students

 

 

Mr. Stephen Ajadi, Ms. Ica Fernandez, Ms Ana Paula Seraphim, Mr. Aviral Marwal

 

 


 

Category/Classification

 

Urban planning, complexity theory, spatial analysis, smart cities, big data, urban models


 

Research Centres