Prof. Verônica Garcia Donoso M. Sc. Humboldt Research Fellowship

Chair and Institute of Urban Design | Faculty of Architecture | RWTH Aachen University

Is a Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil. Holds a PhD from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (2017), having carried out a period of doctoral research at the Instituto de La Vivienda – University of Chile. She has been a researcher at the QUAPÁ-FAUUSP group since 2009, which is the most active Brazilian research group on the Open Space System (SEL) and urban form. Was a researcher at the José Bonifácio Chair at the University of São Paulo in 2013, under the coordination of the former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, and a researcher at the FAPESP Foundation from 2009 to 2017. Has a Master Degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (2011). Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (2007) with an exchange with EAG – École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble (2005-2006). She has experience in the field of architecture and urbanism, with emphasis on landscape and urban design.

Main Fields of Research and Education

Urban and landscape design
Urban and landscape planning
Social housing and landscape
Public spaces
Open spaces
Urban morphology
Green infrastructure