
Prof.dr. A.R. (Ana) Pereira Roders
Prof.dr. A.R. (Ana) Pereira Roders
Academic background
Ana Pereira Roders is currently Professor in Heritage and Values at TUDelft, UNESCO chair on Heritage and the Reshaping of Urban Conservation for Sustainability. Ana Pereira Roders graduated as an Architect at University Lusíada (Portugal) in 2002; and obtained a Ph.D. in Building Technology in 2007 at Eindhoven University of Technology. Between 2016-2019, she worked as Associate Professor in Heritage and Sustainability at Eindhoven University of Technology. She has also worked as Visiting Professor at VU Amsterdam, KU Leuven and ULiege (Belgium), Durham University (UK), and Universidade Lúrio (Mozambique). She is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development (Emerald, UK), and gave a TEDx Talk on how cities become resource efficient in Hamburg in 2015. Since 2008, Ana cooperates closely with UNESCO and the World Heritage Centre in particular. She led the creation of global online platforms such as Protected Urban Planet and the Global Observatory on the Historic Urban Landscape. She is currently member of the governing board of the International Center on Space Technology for Natural and Cultural Heritage (Chinese Academy of Sciences). She is a regular assessor of research proposals and results, as the latest Regiostars awards 2018, and the NWO VENI 2018.
Expertise
Publications
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2025
In Praise of Diversity in Participatory Heritage Planning Empowered by Artificial Intelligence
Windcatchers in Yazd
M. Foroughi / T. Wang / A. Pereira Roders -
2024
Capturing experts’ knowledge in heritage planning enhanced by AI
A case study of windcatchers in Yazd, Iran
Mahda Foroughi / Bruno Andrade / Ana Pereira Roders -
2024
Discovering the Significance of Housing Neighbourhoods by Assessing Their Attributes With a Digital Tool
Lidwine Spoormans / Wessel de Jonge / Darinka Czischke / Ana Pereira Roders
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2024
EquiCity game
a mathematical serious game for participatory design of spatial configurations
Pirouz Nourian / Shervin Azadi / Nan Bai / Bruno de Andrade / Nour Abu Zaid / Samaneh Rezvani / A. Pereira Roders -
2024
Mind the diversity
Defining intervention concepts of built heritage in international doctrinal documents
Mi Lin / Ana Pereira Roders / Ivan Nevzgodin / Wessel de Jonge -
Ancillary activities
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2024-01-01 - 2025-12-31