Who is Rosa?

Rosa Félix is a researcher specialized in urban mobility, with a focus on active and sustainable transportation. She completed her PhD in Transport Systems in 2019 with MIT Portugal at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), and was recognized with the Best PhD Award from the University of Lisbon’s RedeMov. She holds a Master's degree (2012) in Territory and Urban Planning Engineering. Her academic path includes a year as a Visiting Scholar at Portland State University (2017-18), and a 4-month Visiting Researcher at the University of Sydney (2025-26). She is currently a Junior Researcher at IST-ID (CERIS) since 2023, and Invited Assistant Professor since 2024 at IST, and member of the U-Shift research lab, in the Transportation Research Group of the same Research Center.

After earlier roles as a cartographer for the Portuguese Geographic Institute and in IT support, she began as an intern at the Lisbon Mobility Department, contributed in 2013 to the Bicycle Mobility Plan of Loulé and to extending the EuroVelo Network to Portugal, and since 2017 has taken part in several research and consultancy projects for local and regional mobility agencies.

Rosa is skilled in GIS, modern GIS, transport modeling, and R software, while exploring web mapping. Rosa has been working since 2012 in cycling mobility, transport engineering and transport planning, behavior change, social and economic impacts of transportation and shared mobility, and refined methods for transportation data collection and reproducibility. She has given 40+ interviews for newspapers, magazines and podcasts, at both national and international level, where she has had the opportunity to present the findings from her research to a broader audience.

Rosa is a member and project coordinator of a community bicycle workshop, Cicloficina dos Anjos and FEMINA since 2011, and volunteered at Bike Farm in 2017/18. She has also worked as project manager at Bike Pop and Oficina 35 in Lisbon.


IST webpage   CiênciaVitae

Interests

Data Science   ·   Data Visualization   ·   GIS   ·   Web mapping   ·   Cycling   ·   DIY   ·   Activism

Projects & Hobbies

R notebook

Compilation of R code,
under constant update
R notebook

Portuguese Zip-Codes

Georreferenced 7 digit
portuguese zip-codes (CP7)
CP7 GitHub

GTFS

Transit feed data visualization with Python
24h of public transity in Lisbon
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2026.102316

Street's inclinations

Interactive maps with road network
gradients for several locations
Street inclinations

Gradient maps

Tutorial for shapefile and vectorial map
of a road network gradients
Gradient maps

Cycling Network

Evolution of cycling network in Lisbon
Ciclovias em Lisboa

Bicycle Counting

Bicycle and cyclists countings in Lisbon in colaboration with Lisbon Municipality
Cyclists' manual counts

Cicloficina dos Anjos

Community bicycle shop in Lisbon
Cicloficina dos Anjos

Mapa das Cicloficinas

Web mapping
Mapa das Cicloficinas

Dashboard data counts

Shiny dashboard for data visualization
of cyclists' observations, since 2017

Dashboard counts

SELIM Banco de Bicicletas

Long-term bike loan program in Lisbon
SELIM - Banco de Bicicletas

PCT-Portugal

Propensity to Cycle Tool applied to Portugal
Project in colaboration with ITS Leeds
PCT Portugal

FEMINA

Community bicycle shop exclusive for
Women, Trans and Non-Binary people
Cicloficina dos Anjos

Walk + Transit

Assessibility evaluation
using GTFS and r5r
Walk + Transit Hackathon

BiclaR

Strategic cycling network modelling
For Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa
PCT Portugal

Oficina 35

Bike Shop in Lisbon
Oficina 35

Publications


Reach me

Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisboa,
Portugal

hi@rosafelix.bike

rosamfelix@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

(+351) 918 823 772