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Simone Safe

Simone Safe

Simone Safe

Head of programme

PhD Credentials

PhD in Geography 

Member Status

Bio

Simone Safe is a Brazilian architect, urban planner and researcher specializing in urban health, landscape planning and sustainable urban development. She holds a PhD in Geography from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), with research focused on salutogenic landscapes, biophilic cities and inequalities in access to urban green spaces.


She is currently Assistant Professor and Head of the Master in Urban Planning and Development – Urban Innovation and Sustainability (URBIS) at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi. Her research and teaching bridge urban planning, landscape architecture and public health, with particular interests in urban green infrastructure, biophilic design, salutogenic landscapes, health equity, climate resilience and emerging approaches in neurourbanism and epigenetics.


Her academic and applied research has been developed across Latin America, North Africa, Europe and the Middle East through international research networks and multidisciplinary projects. She is also the founder and a Scientific Council Member of the Postgraduate Programme in Landscape Architecture at IEC/PUC Minas and contributes to international research networks and scientific peer review in urban planning, landscape architecture and urban health.

Research Affiliations & Professional Memberships

• Research Member, Laboratoire 5 Afrique, EHEPJ – Université de Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Scientific Research Member, LAB-Réseau ULYSSE, Belgium.

• Scientific Collaborator, Taghazout Surf Expo (TSE), Morocco – Communes de Surf / Surf Cities & Villages Label.

• Member, Environmental Design Research Group, UFMG/CNPq, Brazil.

• Member, International Society for Urban Health (ISUH).

• Member, International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).

• Member, Associação Brasileira de Arquitetos Paisagistas (ABAP), Brazil.


  • Urban Health
  • Salutogenic Landscape  
  • Biophilic cities and biophilic design
  • Epigenetics
  • Open space systems (public and private, vegetated and non-vegetated)  
  • Ecosystem services and Climate adaptation
  • Urban morphology  
  • Cultural Landscape / Historic Urban Landscape 

Researches for Simone Safe

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