Nuno Simão Gonçalves holds a Master's degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra. He is a doctoral student in the doctoral program “Heritage of Portuguese Influence” at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute and the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, where he is finishing his dissertation titled "Do "caniço" ao "cimento": A evolução suburbana da capital de Moçambique (1892-1992) ". He is a junior researcher at CES, having contributed to several projects, including: 2013-2015 - "De S. Paulo de Luanda a Luuanda, de Lourenço Marques a Maputo: capitais coloniais em tempos pós-coloniais ", FCT, coordinated by Margarida Calafate Ribeiro; 2015-2016 - “José Luandino Vieira: Diários do Tarrafal – Acervo Digital ”, coordinated by Margarida Calafate Ribeiro and funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; 2016 - "UNESCO's Global Report on Culture and Sustainable Urban Development regional survey for Portuguese speaking countries", coordinated by Walter Rossa and funded by UNESCO; 2016-2018 - " Oficinas de Muhipiti: Planeamento Estratégico, Património, Desenvolvimento", coordinated by Isequiel Alcolete, Walter Rossa, Nuno Simão Gonçalves, Nuno Lopes, funded by the Universities of Lúrio and Coimbra, Camões I.P., Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and UCCLA. His research interests focus on the history of architecture and urbanism in Portuguese-speaking African cities, with a special commitment to the issues of social and urban segregation, before and after independence, and its relations with colonialism, post-colonialism and racism.