Blanca Arellano Ramos

PhD in Architecture (2022) and is a Serra Húnter Lecturer in the Department of Architectural Technology at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB–UPC). She is Director of the Master’s Degree in Urban Planning, Sustainability and Climate Change and Coordinator of the Urban and Architectural Management and Valuation track of the MBArch. Since 2010, she has been a researcher at the Centre for Land Policy and Valuations (CPSV–UPC) and QURBIS research group. She received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award.
Her research focuses on the relationship between cities, housing, climate, and society, addressing urban climate, extreme weather events, and climate change adaptation through urban planning. She is currently the principal investigator of projects on climate infrastructures and heat shelters for older adults funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya a and has participated in European and national competitive research projects, including CLIMCAP, Urban-CLIMPLAN and X-CLIMPLAN