Fernando Lima

Fernando Lima is an assistant professor of architecture and computational design and the director of digital fabrications at the O'More College of Architecture and Design | Belmont University, United States. From 01/2020 to 06/2022, Dr. Lima served as postdoctoral scholar at Stuckeman Center for Design Computing – Pennsylvania State University, United States. His research explores computational design, urban data analysis, and digital fabrication, with his current focus being on generative design, optimization, data science, and computational approaches for design teaching. Lima has a Ph.D. in Urbanism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, having attended a one-year doctoral exchange period at the Faculty of Architecture - University of Lisbon, Portugal. In 2018, he was awarded the Fulbright | CAPES Foundation Thesis 2018 Honorable Mention for his Ph.D. thesis. Dr. Lima is currently on leave from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, where he served as: vice-director of the College of Architecture and Urbanism; a tenured professor in the Department of Design, Representation, and Technology, and; a permanent professor in the graduate program of Built Environment. He holds a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from the Fluminense Federal University (2008) and a specialist degree in Construction Management from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2008), where he also graduated Architect and Urbanist (2003). Fernando is the Coordinator (leader) of the Architecture, and Urbanism Research Laboratory (DOMVS / UFJF-CNPq), a collaborating member of the Center for Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD), and a member of the Design Computation Group (DCG), both from Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon. Dr. Lima is a member of the International Executive Committee of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi) and a reviewer of several journals in the field of Architecture, Urbanism, and computational design.