Ana Clara Mourão Moura

She graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Specialization in Territorial and Urban Planning from PUC-MG and University of Bologna, Master's degree in Geography from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and PhD in Geography from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is a Full Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Department of Urban Planning. She has experience in Urban Planning and Geosciences, with an emphasis on Spatial Analysis, GIS, Urban Environmental Diagnosis, Landscape Heritage. Supervises Master's and Doctorate degrees in the Postgraduate Program in Geography. Coordinator of the CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) research group: "Geoprocessing in Urban and Environmental Landscape Management". 
She has been teaching geoprocessing since the late 1990s, and in 2003 she published the first Brazilian book on geoprocessing applied to urban management and planning. In 2004, due to her contributions, she was awarded the cartographic merit medal, Knight Degree, from the Brazilian Cartography Society. In 2011 she was nominated by MundoGeo, a Brazilian organization, as one of the 5 personalities of the decade in geoprocessing in the country. Her publications on Geodesign stand out in the world, being one of the authors with the largest number of publications on the topic.