Mr. Pedro Abel Romero Leiro | Urban History | Best Researcher Award

Pedro Abel Romero Leiro is a civil engineer and PhD candidate in Urbanism at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar whose research investigates the intersection of infrastructure, urban transformation, and heritage conservation. His scholarly contributions focus on understanding how infrastructural development and decline influence the social, economic, and spatial dynamics of cities, particularly in the Latin American context. Through an interdisciplinary lens that combines urban history, archival inquiry, and infrastructure studies, he explores the long-term impacts of infrastructural change on mobility, urban form, and regional hierarchies. His study on the decline of Puerto Colombia’s maritime system provides a pioneering framework for analyzing the broader implications of infrastructural decay on urban life. He has published in leading journals such as Planning Perspectives (WoS Q1) and the Revista Brasileira de Gestão e Desenvolvimento Regional, contributing to global academic discourse on urban quality of life, mobility, and cultural heritage. His research advances the understanding of how political, environmental, and economic decisions shape urban trajectories, offering insights relevant to contemporary urban regeneration and heritage-sensitive planning. Demonstrating a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research and academic excellence, he bridges engineering and urban studies to promote sustainable and historically grounded urban development. His citation metrics reflect growing scholarly recognition, with a total of 15 citations (8 since 2020), an h-index of 1, and an i10-index of 1, highlighting his emerging impact in the fields of urban history and infrastructure studies.

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