Vera Viana (Ph.D.) is a Researcher at the Centre for Studies of Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, Portugal FAUP. Her research focuses on geometry, polyhedral theory, the history of polyhedra, structural geometry, the relationships between architecture and mathematics, and mathematics education through advanced digital tools (3D modeling software, parametric modeling software, and 3D printing).

Director of Aproged (the Portuguese Geometry and Drawing Teachers’ Association) since 2009, Vera Viana organizes the international conferences Geometrias (since 2013), Jornadas Didácticas (since 2016), Aproged’s National Meetings (2008-2012) and is editor-in-chief of the Geometrias conference books of abstracts and proceedings, as well as Aproged’s Bulletins (2009 to 2021).

Editor of conferences-related books published by Springer Nature (2020 and 2022), the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (2022) and Aproged (2009-2021).

In July 2020, Viana concluded her Doctoral Thesis Aplicações Didácticas sobre Poliedros para o Ensino da Geometria | Didactic Applications on Polyhedra for the Teaching of Geometry, in Sciences and Technology Education with a specialization in Mathematical Sciences Education, at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD).

Corresponding Editor for Nexus Network Journal.

Viana is currently in the job market looking for Academic and/or Research & Development opportunities.

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OUTPUTS: as author and co-author | seminars, workshops, etc. | oral presentations | as editor and co-editor | events and committees

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AS AUTHOR AND CO-AUTHOR

• DOCTORAL THESIS:
  1. Viana, V. 2020. Aplicações didácticas sobre poliedros para o ensino da geometria (Didactic Applications on Polyhedra for the teaching of Geometry) [Tese de Doutoramento, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro]. Repositório Científico da UTAD. http://hdl.handle.net/10348/10337

• BOOK CHAPTERS:
  1. Viana, V. 2023. (in-press) Non-Uniform Polyhedra Described by Daniele Barbaro. Cosimo Monteleone and Kim Williams (Eds.) Daniele Barbaro and the University of Padova; Architecture, Art, and Science on the Occasion of the 450^th Anniversary of His Death. Springer Nature. (TBD)
  2. Xavier, J., Sousa, J., Castro, A. and Viana, V. 2022. An Introduction to Solid Tessellations with Students of Architecture. In Vera Viana, Helena Mena Matos João Pedro Xavier (Eds.) Polyhedra and Beyond Selected Contributions from Geometrias’19, Porto, Portugal, September 05-07. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99116-6_10. 137-147.
  3. Viana, V., Xavier J., Aires A. & Campos H. 2019. Interactive Expansion of Achiral Polyhedra. In Luigi Cocchiarella (Ed.). ICGG 2018 – Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics. ICGG 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 809. Springer. 1116-1128.
  4. Viana, V. 2015. Interactive Resources for an Active Descriptive Geometry Learning. In Nélia Amado & Susana Carreira (Eds.) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching ICTMT 12. Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal, 352-360.

• CONFERENCE PAPERS:
  1. Viana, V. 2023 (in-press). Materializing Daniele Barbaro’s Creativity with 3D Printing. Proceedings of Bridges 2023: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture. (TBD)
  2. Viana, V. 2022. Spatial structures based on solid tessellations. Seyed Alireza Behnejad, Gar Parke & Omidali Samavati (Eds.) Inspiring the Next Generation – Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Structures 2020/21 (IASS2020/21-Surrey7). Surrey: Spatial Structures Research Centre of the University of Surrey. 2159-2170.
  3. Viana, V. 2021. Towards a systematic approach of topological interlocked assemblies of polyhedra. Kim Williams & Cornelie Leopold (Eds.) Nexus 20/21 Architecture and Mathematics Conference Book. Turin: Kim Williams Books. 295-300.
  4. Viana, V. 2018. Topological Interlocking of Convex Regular Polyhedra. Cornelie Leopold, Christopher Robeller & Ulrike Weber (Eds.). RCA 2018 Research Culture in Architecture. International Conference on cross-disciplinary collaboration. Kaiserslautern: FATUK. 254-257.
  5. Viana, V. 2018. Architectonic Tessellations as Constructive Modules. Kim Williams & Marco Bevilacqua (Eds.) Nexus 2018 Architecture and Mathematics Conference Book. Turin: Kim Williams Books. 325-328.

• JOURNAL ARTICLES:
  1. Viana, V. 2019. Tessellations within Tessellations. Dénes Nagy, Ioannis Vandoulakis, Ryuji Takaki, Ritsuko Izuhara, Shozo Ishihara & Yoshinori Teshima (Eds.) Tradition and Innovation in Symmetry. 11th Congress and Exhibition of SIS-Symmetry. 290-293.
  2. Duric, I.; Obradovic, R.; Viana, V.; Krstanovic, L.; Banjac, B.; Letic, J.; Ralevic, N. 2019. Algorithm for Image-Based Architectural Element Recognition. FME Transactions. 47(2), 287–292. https://doi.org/10.5937/fmet1902287d
  3. Viana, V. 2018. From Solid to Plane Tessellations, and Back. Kim Williams & Michael Ostwald (Eds.). Nexus Network Journal, 20(3). 741-768.
  4. Viana, V. 2014. Dynamic geometry software and augmented reality samples for high school descriptive geometry teaching. Revista Electrónica de Investigación, Docencia y Creatividad, 3. 46-60.
  5. Viana, V. 2013. Descriptive Geometry Learning is no more threatened by dynamic geometry software than stairs by elevators. Indagatio Didactica, vol. 5(1). 85-102.
  6. Viana, Vera. 2007. Materiais didácticos para o Ensino da Geometria Descritiva no Ensino Secundário. Boletim da Aproged, 27. Porto, Portugal: Aproged.

• SCHOOLBOOKS (out of print):
  1. Viana, V. 2014. Duas por Três 11: Geometria Descritiva, 11º ano: ensino secundário. Porto: Areal Editores.
  2. Viana, V. 2013. Duas por Três 10: Geometria Descritiva, 10º ano: ensino secundário. Porto: Areal Editores.

• ONLINE RESOURCES:
  1. Viana, V. 2022. Spatial structures based on solid tessellations.
  2. Viana, V. 2022. Studying Polyhedra with Advanced Digital Tools.
  3. Viana, V. 2021. Interactive 3D models of polyhedra.
  4. Viana, V. 2013-2015. GeoGebra Books

• WEBSITES:
  • Viana, V. 2020. moving geometry
  • Viana, V. 2020. 2º site da Aproged
  • Viana, V. 2010. geometria interactiva (offline)
  • Viana, V. 2008. 1º site da Aproged
  • Viana, V. 2007. Blogue Geometria Descritiva

SEMINAR / WORKSHOPS / COURSES / DISCIPLINES TAUGHT

• Seminar Studying Polyhedra with Advanced Digital Tools included in the Art and Math Seminar Spring 2022, organized by the Department of Mathematics at Kansas State University, United States of America | 21. April 2022
• Workshop Tessellating and Interlocking in Patterns included in the Summer Semester “Pattern Matters” in the Faculty of Architektur Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany | 18 May, 2021
• Seminar Preenchimento Uniforme do Espaço com Poliedros Convexos included in the syllabus “Discursos Interdsciplinares sobre Geometria” @ Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal | 2018
• Six lectures on Preenchimento do Espaço com Poliedros included in the syllabus “Geometry and Architecture” for 1st year students @ Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal, | March-April, 2017
• Workshop Construções Dinâmicas com o Geogebra @ ProfMat 2014 Braga, Portugal  | 2014
• Workshop Introdução ao Rhinoceros @ Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal | 2013
• Workshop Construção de exercícios interactivos com o C.a.R. Metal e o Geogebra @ XII Encontro Regional da Aproged, Vila Real, Portugal | 2012
• Descriptive Geometry classes at Portuguese Secondary Schools | 1994 to 2011
• Continuing Training Course Produção de Materiais Didácticos para o Ensino da Geometria com o apoio das TIC @ ISCTE – nstituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal | 2010
• Continuing Training Course Produção de Materiais Didácticos para o Ensino da Geometria com o apoio das TIC @ Colégio de Santa Doroteia, Lisboa, Portugal | 2009

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

1. Materializing Daniele Barbaro’s Creativity with 3D Printing (regular paper with oral presentation) Bridges Halifax 2023 (upcoming) | July 2023 | Dalhousie University, Canada
2. Spatial Structures Based on Solid Tessellations (paper with oral presentation) IASS Annual Symposium and Spatial Structures Conference | August 2021, University of Surrey, England.
3. Towards a Systematic Approach of Topological Interlocked Assemblies of Polyhedra (poster with oral presentation) Nexus 20/21: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics | September 2021, Faculty of Architecture, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany.
4. Non-uniform Polyhedra in Barbaro’s La Pratica della Perspettiva (keynote lecture) Giornata di studi – Daniele Barbaro e lo Studio Patavino | December 2020, Universitá di Padova, Italy.
5. Tessellations Within Tessellations (paper with oral presentation) Symmetry Art and Science: 11th Congress and Exhibition | November 2019, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan.
6. Geometria Descritiva Interactiva (keynote lecture) 2º Workshop – Software Livre de Matemática | July 2019, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal.
7. Topological Interlocking of Convex Regular Polyhedra (poster with oral presentation) RCA 2018: Research Culture in Architecture. International Conference on Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration | September 2018, Faculty of Architecture, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany.
8. Interactive Expansion of Achiral Polyhedra (paper with oral presentation) ICGG18: 18th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics | August 2018, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
9. Architectonic Tessellations as Constructive Modules (poster with oral presentation) Nexus 2018: Relationships between Architecture and Mathematics |  July 2018, Università di Pisa, Italy.
10. Axonometric Representations in Solid Geometry Teaching (poster presentation) Nexus 2016: Relationships between Architecture and Mathematics | July 2016, Biblioteca Campus de Gipuzkoa Donostia, San-Sebastian, Spain.
11. Interactive Resources for an Active Descriptive Geometry Learning (paper presentation) 12^th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching | July 2015, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade do Algarve, Portugal.
12. Recursos digitais para a Didática e a Aprendizagem da Geometria Descritiva (keynote lecture) Projeto TEA – Tablets no Ensino e na Aprendizagem – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian | January 2015, Escola Secundária Eça de Queirós, Lisboa, Portugal.
13. Dynamic Geometry Software and Augmented Reality Samples for High School Descriptive Geometry Teaching (paper with oral presentation) Enabling Teachers for Entrepreneurship Education |  June 2014, Universidad de Granada, Spain.
14. Descriptive Geometry Learning Is No More Threatened by Dynamic Geometry Software Than Stairs by Elevators (paper with oral presentation) III Dia Geogebra em Portugal | June 2013, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.

AS EDITOR AND CO-EDITOR

• CONFERENCE-RELATED BOOKS AND PROCEEDINGS:
  1. Vera Viana, Helena Mena Matos & João Pedro Xavier (Eds.) 2022. Polyhedra and Beyond Selected Contributions from Geometrias’19, Porto, Portugal, September 05-07. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99116-6
  2. Vera Viana, Dénes Nagy, João Pedro Xavier, Ana Neiva, Marco Ginoulhiac, Luís Mateus & Pedro Varela. (Eds.) 2022. Symmetry: Art and Science | 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress [Special Issue]. Symmetry: Art and Science. International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry. Symmetry. https://doi.org/10.24840/1447-607X/2022/12-01-001
  3. João Cabeleira & Vera Viana (Eds.). 2021. Jornadas Didácticas 2021: Livro de Resumos. Porto: Aproged.
  4. Vera Viana, Vítor Murtinho & João Pedro Xavier (Eds.) 2020. Thinking, Drawing, Modelling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46804-0
  5. Vera Viana (Ed.) 2019. Geometrias’19: Book of Abstracts. Porto, Portugal: Aproged. https://doi.org/10.24840/978-989-98926-8-2
  6. Vasco Cardoso & Vera Viana (Eds.) 2018. Jornadas Didácticas 2018: Livro de Resumos. Porto: Aproged.
  7. Vera Viana (Ed.) 2017. Geometrias’17: Book of Abstracts. Porto: Aproged.
  8. Vera Viana, Filipe Gonzalez, Gilson Braviano, Manuel Costa & Vítor Murtinho (Eds.) 2016. Geometrias & Graphica 2015 Proceedings, Porto: Aproged, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
  9. Vera Viana & Alexandra Paio (Eds.) 2014. Geometrias 2014 Proccedings. Porto: Aproged.

• JOURNAL ISSUES:
  1. Vasco Cardoso & Vera Viana (Eds.) 2021. Boletim da Aproged, 35. Porto: Aproged.
  2. Vera Viana, Vítor Murtinho & João Pedro Xavier (Eds.) 2018. Boletim da Aproged, 34. Porto: Aproged.
  3. Vera Viana (Ed.) 2017. Boletim da Aproged, 33. Porto: Aproged.
  4. Vera Viana (Ed.) 2015. Boletim da Aproged, 32. Porto: Aproged.
  5. Vera Viana (Ed.) 2014. Boletim da Aproged, 31. Porto: Aproged.
  6. Vera Viana (Ed.) 2013. Boletim da Aproged, 30. Porto: Aproged.
  7. Vera Viana (Ed.) 2012. Boletim da Aproged, 29. Porto: Aproged.
  8. Vera Viana (Ed.) 2009. Boletim da Aproged, 28. Porto: Aproged.

EVENTS AND COMMITTEES:

• ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS:
  1. Symmetry: Art and Science | 12th SIS-Symmetry Congress | Co-Chair and Organizing Committee member
  2. Jornadas Didácticas 2021 | Organizing Committee member
  3. Conference Symmetry, Structure, and Information @ 2021 IS4SI Summit | Chair of Session 1 and Session 2 and Organizing Committee member
  4. IS4SI 2021 – Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information | Co-Chair
  5. IASS Annual Symposium and Spatial Structures Conference | Chair of the Sessions “Morphology and Configuration Processing 1” and “Morphology and Configuration Processing 2”
  6. Nexus 20/21: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics | Chair of the Session “Mathematics of Natural Forms and Structures”
  7. Geometrias 19: Polyhedra and Beyond (2019, FAUP, University of Porto) | Organizing Committee member
  8. Jornadas Didácticas 2018 (2018, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto) | Organizing Committee member
  9. Geometrias 17: Thinking, Drawing, Modelling (2017, University of Coimbra) | Organizing Committee member
  10. Jornadas Didácticas 2016 (2016, Escola Secundária de Pedro Nunes, Lisboa) | Organizing Committee member
  11. Geometrias & Graphica 2015: Trends on Graphic Thinking (2015, Universidade Lusíada, Lisbon) | Organizing Committee member
  12. Geometrias’14: New challenges on practice, researching and teaching geometries and drawing (2017, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon) | Organizing Committee member
  13. Geometrias’13 (2013, FAUP, University of Porto) | Organizing Committee member

• COMMITTEE MEMBER:
  1. Conference Coordination Committee member of Nexus 2023: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics | Department of Architecture and Design of the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, since 2022
  2. Researcher/Consultant in the Community of Practices Workgroup of the Program RESET – Redesigning Equality and Scientific Excellence Together, since 11.2021
  3. Scientific Committee member of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, since 11.2020

• JOURNAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTE MEMBER:
  1. Corresponding Editor of the Nexus Network Journal, since 2014.
  2. Boletim da Aproged, from 2009 to 2021

• SCIENTIFIC/PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER (reviewer):
  1. 2023: Bridges 2023
  2. 2023: CAAD Futures 2023 (sub-reviewer)
  3. 2023: Mongeometrija 2023
  4. 2022: ICGG 2022
  5. 2022: Bridges 2022
  6. 2022: 12^th SIS-Symmetry Congress 2022
  7. 2021: IS4SI 2021
  8. 2021: Nexus 20/21
  9. 2020: ICGG 2020
  10. 2019: Geometrias’19
  11. 2018: ICGG 2018
  12. 2018: Mongeometrija 2018
  13. 2015: ICTMT 12 (sub-reviewer)

• ASSOCIATION MEMBER:
  • SIS-Symmetry: International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, since 11.2019
  • ISGG: International Society for Geometry and Graphics, since 08.2018
  • APROGED: Portuguese Geometry and Drawing Teachers Association, since 01.1999

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