Ester Higueras García Editor

Elisa Pozo Menéndez is architect and urban planner, MsC in Villes durables (UPEM-IFU, 2014) and MsC in Environment and Bioclimatic Architecture at UPM (MAYAB, 2019). She is currently researcher in ABIO-UPM Group and PhD candidate on healthy ageing and urbanism, coordinating European projects at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid on innovative education and urban health (EIT Health). She collaborates as architect and consultant with different studios and engineering teams in urban studies, mobility plans, architecture projects and competitions. She teaches workflows and digital tools in Istituto Europeo di Design. Since 2006 she has collaborated in multiple NGOs and associations, working with vulnerable collectives. In 2020 she receives the third prize solidarity award of Young Talent of the Region of Madrid. 
Ester Higueras García is a Doctor of Architecture. She is a professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a researcher for the Bioclimatic Architecture group in a more sustainable environment ABIO-UPM. She has worked in bioclimatic urbanism, environmental ordinances, impact studies and sustainable planning since 1990, and in 2015 she has started the urbanism and health line, with three European projects won in the competitive call from EIT Health of the European Union. She has combined research work as director of 16 doctoral theses and various R&D projects in recent years, with professionals, highlighting the Bioclimatic Ordinance of Tres Cantos in 2001, the Bioclimatic Manuals for Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2012, the study for the Bioclimatic Characterization of the city of Malaga in 2021, and the proposal to plan Healthy Neighbourhoods in the Basque Country in 2021-2022.