Margarida Perestrelo, retired Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-ISCTE-IUL. PhD in Sociology, specializing in Sociological Theories and Methods. Her research areas are Data Analysis applied to the Social Sciences and Foresight Methodologies applied to Territory, Structural Analysis, Subsystem Analysis, Strategic Analysis of Actors and Cenarization. Author of many publications, she has been involved in multiple research projects in Territorial Foresight.