Natália Cunha, PhD in Landscape Architecture (ISA/ University of Lisbon) and MSc in Geographic Information Systems ( GIS) (IST Técnico/ University of Lisbon), she has been a researcher at LEAF - Instituto Superior de Agronomia since 2001. From 2004 to 2013, she worked as a teaching assistant at both ISA and IST and has published in peer-reviewed journals. She specialises in GIS-based landscape planning methodologies, contributing to several R&D projects related to green plans, ecological networks, GI land morphology, and flood risk mapping. Her postdoctoral research (CEEC/FCT, 2019–2024) focuses on integrating natural value protection into spatial planning. Recently, she co-coordinated LEAF/ISA project LandGi-nexus (2021– 2023).Manuela Magalhães, PhD in Landscape Architecture (ISA/ University of Lisbon). She founded and coordinated the Research Centre for Landscape Architecture (CEAP) in 2001. She was Deputy to the Secretary of State for the Environment and Head of the Landscape Planning Studies Division. As Professor at the School of Agronomy and Instituto Superior Técnico (UL), she has coordinated several Green Municipal Plans and research projects, including the National Ecological Network and the Potential Landscape Plan of Portugal. A founding member and General Secretary of the Portuguese Landscape Architect Association (APAP). In 2022, she was awarded the Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles–Environment and Landscape career prize.
