Cristina Matos Silva is an Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon and researcher of CERIS specialized in green infrastructures and rainwater harvesting systems.

Founding member and current Vice President of the Portuguese Association for Green Roofs - ACNV.

Principal investigator of R&D Project GENESIS "Green roofs and walls environmental economic and social savings: Modelling uncertainty and investors/users preferences in all-inclusive cost-benefit analysis of green roofs and green walls".