Elisabete A. Silva is a British-Portuguese planning theorist. She is a professor of spatial planning in the department of land economy at the University of Cambridge.[1] Silva was the first woman to be promoted to Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor in the Department's history.
Career
Silva joined the University of Cambridge in 2006 as a university lecturer (assistant professor).[1] She earned tenure in 2009. In 2012, she became a senior lecturer (associate professor).[1] In 2017, she became a Reader and Professor in spatial planning and was promoted to full professor in October 2020.[1] Silva is the first woman to be promoted to senior lecturer, reader, and professor in the department of land economy.[1][2] She is the director of the University of Cambridge Lab of Interdisciplinary Spatial Analysis (LISA Lab).[3]
Silva's research is centred on the application of new technologies to spatial planning in particular city and metropolitan dynamic modelling through time. Her research interests include urban planning, land use, transportation, spatial analysis, data science, big data, complexity theory, smart/digital cities, geographic information systems, planning support systems, space-time dynamic models, computation, dynamic simulation, and soft artificial intelligence.[4][better source needed]
She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[5][2][6] She is also a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI).[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e Silva, Prof E. (2 December 2013). "Professor Elisabete A Silva". www.landecon.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ a b c "RTPI members awarded Fellowship of Academy of Social Sciences". www.rtpi.org.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ "Academy of Social Sciences confers Fellowships on three Cambridge academics". University of Cambridge. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ Silva, Elisabete A. (7 October 2015). "Game Changer article by CSIC Co-Investigator Elisabete Silva published in Infrastructure Intelligence". Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ Sciences, Academy of Social. "Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ "Cambridge academics given Fellowships at Academy of Social Sciences". Varsity Online. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
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