Clarice Maraschin
Research leader
Architect and Urbanist from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1984), Master’s and Doctorate’s degree from the Graduate Program on Urban and Regional Planning (PROPUR – UFRGS) (1993 / 2009). She has been Postdoctoral Fellow at the Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA (2015).
She is currently Associate Professor at the College of Architecture, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) (since 2010). She is a tenured professor in the Graduate Program on Urban and Regional Planning (PROPUR – UFRGS).
She is leader of Urban Configurational Systems (SCU) Research Group, registered at CNPq and certified by UFRGS.
Her research interests are urban spatial structure, spatial analysis, urban impacts, urban morphology, land use, retail, urban centralities.
✉ clarice.maraschin @ ufrgs.br
Romulo Celso Krafta
Honorary researcher and founder of the research group
Bachelor’s at Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1973), Master’s at Urban Design from Oxford Polytechnic Oxford Brookes University (1982) and Doctorate at Urban Science from University of Cambridge (1992). He has been Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis – CASA, University College London, England (2001) and at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013).
He is currently Full Professor at the College of Architecture, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He is a tenured professor in the Graduate Program on Urban and Regional Planning (PROPUR – UFRGS).
He is the leader of Urban Configurational Systems (SCU) Research Group, registered at CNPq and certified by UFRGS.
He is CNPq ‘Productivity in research’ grantee – Level Nível 1C – CA SA – Architecture, Demography, Geography, Tourism and Urban and Regional Planning; member of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC) scientific committee; ad hoc consultant of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (CAPES), of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and of SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online).
Has experience in Urban and Regional Planning, focusing on Techniques of Analysis and Urban and Regional Evaluation, acting on the following subjects: urban spatial analysis, configurational urban models, urban spatial configuration, urban performance, simulation of spatial dynamics, urban design, and urban and regional planning.
✉ romulokrafta@gmail.com
Bárbara Giaccom
Researcher
Architect and Urbanist from the Presbiterian University Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil (2006). Master’s degree in Remote Sensing from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil (2010). Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning (research line: in infrastructure and environmental planning) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.She is currently Associate Professor at the College of Architecture, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) (since 2010). She is a tenured professor in the Graduate Program on Urban and Regional Planning (PROPUR – UFRGS).
She has past experiences in Architecture and Urbanism, with emphasis on urban planning and urban design, slum urbanization, urban infrastructure project and planning, technical and financial feasibility analysis, budget; Remote Sensing and Geosciences, use of high-resolution images, geographic information systems (GIS), object-based image analysis and spatial analysis.
Her currently research interests are solid waste management focused on watershed-scale and urban systems integration; urban spatial analysis, spatial modeling and urban configurational studies. She has been working with Urban Systems , Cidade em Projeto and Water Resources Planning and Management research groups since 2013.