Biography

Luís Loures is a Landscape Architect and Agronomic Engineer, Full Professor and President of the Portalegre Polytechnic University, who holds a Ph.D. in Planning, a Post-Doc in Agronomy, and Habilitation in Agriculture and Forestry Sciences. Recently he was awarded a Honoris Causa Doctor recognition by Universidad Tecnológica - ECOTEC, Ecuador (one of the worlds most renowned Universities in sustainability related domains, recognized by its unique scientific and technological model), for his relevant contribution to the fields of education and sustainability.
Since he graduated he has published several peer reviewed papers at the national and international levels and he has been a guest researcher and lecturer both at Michigan State University (USA), and at the University of Toronto (Canada) where he has developed part of his Ph.D. research with the financial support from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Ph.D. grant). During his academic career he taught in several courses in different Universities including the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Letterkenny Institute of Technology – Ireland, Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany and the University of Algarve, mainly regarding the fields of landscape architecture, urban and environmental planning, climate change and sustainable development. Currently, He is a researcher both at VALORIZA - Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization – Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, and CinTurs - Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, University of Algarve, where he is a researcher on several financed research projects focusing several different investigation domains such as urban planning, landscape reclamation and urban redevelopment, and the use of urban planning as a tool for achieving sustainable development.