About

Rosa Félix

Senior Posdoctoral Researcher and Invited Assistant Professor
CERIS, Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon
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Rosa Félix is a senior post-doctoral researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico – University of Lisbon and member of the U-Shift lab, in the Transportation Research Group of CERIS. Having a background of Urban Planning Engineering, she completed her Ph.D. in Transport Systems in 2019 at Instituto Superior Técnico (MIT Portugal program), and was a Visiting Scholar at Portland State University in 2017/18.

Rosa is an active mobility researcher, and excels in R and GIS. She is an open source and reproducible research enthusiast. Her publications include articles on cycling and behavior change, and open source code solutions to specific GIS and mobility problems. Every year, Rosa lectures a course for cycling infrastructure planning and design for practitioners, and also teaches GIS for transportation and introduction to programming for MSc course of Transportation Systems. 

Rosa has worked in multiple R&D and consultancy projects with both municipalities and industry, such as the Municipality of Lisbon (2019-2022) and the Department for Transportation of Lisbon Metro (2023), in which she developed a digital tool - biclaR - to support the planning of the metropolitan cycling network, in collaboration with Institute for Transport Studies of the University of Leeds.