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Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito, Brazilian, is a full professor at São Paulo State University (Unesp), where she did her undergraduate and master’s degrees in Geography. She completed her doctorate at the University of São Paulo (USP) and did post-doctoral work at the Université de Paris I – Sorbonne. She did a research internship at the Université de Paris Cité, with funding from the Institut de Recherche et Dévélopment (IRD).
She has carried out academic and scientific activities at various Brazilian and foreign universities. She is a member of the Space Production and Regional Redefinitions Research Group (GAsPERR) and the Network of Researchers on Medium-sized Cities (ReCiMe).
She has experience in Geography, with an emphasis on Urban Geography, working mainly on the following topics: production of urban space, socio-spatial segregation and self-segregation, socio-spatial fragmentation, medium-sized cities.
She was president of the Permanent Evaluation Commission (CPA) at Unesp and a member of the Council for the Defense of the Historical, Archaeological, Artistic and Tourist Heritage of the State of São Paulo (Condephaat).
She was awarded the 1st Unesp Women Researchers Award – Senior Human Sciences, Paulista State University – Unesp and the Ana Clara Torres Ribeiro Book Award from the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Urban and Regional Planning.
She is the author of 57 articles published in scientific journals, the author or organizer of 28 books and has published 98 book chapters.She has supervised 35 master’s theses, 34 doctoral dissertations and 16 post-doctoral internships.
She has coordinated seven research teams and participated as a member of more than a dozen others.