Joana Gonçalves was born on June 20th, 1990, in Portugal. She graduated as an architect from the School of Architecture of University of Minho. In her master thesis she explored the contributions of vernacular architecture for sustainability, using both qualitative and quantitative methods to establish and analyze the relations between architecture, landscape, and ways of life, that contributed to the resilience of traditional systems over the centuries. She was awarded with the Iberian Prize on Traditional Architecture Research in 2014 for her research in this thesis. In 2016 she started her PhD on “Building Passport: a decision-making tool for sustainable conservation”, within the research program “EcoCoRe – Eco-Construction and Rehabilitation”, an International Doctoral Program on Sustainable Built Environment based in Portugal. In her research she uses a mixed-methods approach to understand practitioners’ behaviours towards heritage conservation and the reasons behind the lack of implementation of sustainable practices. Since 2020, she is a lecturer in Heritage and Sustainability in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft.