Ana Cristina Dias

Ana Cristina Dias is a designer and lecturer at the Design Department of the Lisbon School of Architecture – Universidade de Lisboa (FAUL) since 2013 and a researcher at the Centre for Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD). Her area of research focuses on the relationship between design education and its professional practice, namely in adapting the academic curricula of Products and Services Design to the challenges of contemporary trade. Ana holds a PhD from the Lisbon School of Architecture (FAUL), she also holds an Advanced Studies in Design (2011) course from FAUL and a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design (2010) from the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave.