- Postdoctoral Research Associate-

Inês Dantas is an architect and urban-environmental designer, co-founder of WUDA*  Wurfbaum Dantas Architects/Workshop for Urbanism, Design, Architecture. In her practice, she develops housing and urban projects, engages in climate adaptation schemes and green networks with interdisciplinary frameworks. Inês has studied in Coimbra University and Politecnico di Milano and holds a PhD by Architectural Design awarded by the University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture. Her doctoral research investigated the relationship between trees and architecture in urban spaces, exploring how to co-design with trees to integrate the ‘natural’ and the ‘urban’ in the future of cities. Inês has taught at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at Innsbruck University, University of Brighton, Architectural Association Visiting School Singapore and lectured in EPFL, Lisbon Triennale, Bartlett School of Architecture, Lichtakademie Bartenbach, Politecnico di Milano, Mumbai Rizvi College of Architecture and San Francisco Academy of Art University. Currently, she teaches at the Chair of Architectural Design and Participation, TUM where she leads Cool-Lab, a seminar-laboratory for climate adaptation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the London Design Festival, MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lothringer13, the Unfolding Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and at the Architekturmuseum, Pinakothek der Moderne.