Doris Tarchópulos is researcher of the Global Cities Chair directed by Saskia Sassen and Richard Sennett at Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and Theatrum Mundi - London School of Economics LSE. She received in 2012 the Ph.D. Extraordinary Prize, awared by Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya UPC, for the Thesis: Traces of a Plan for Bogota by Le Corbusier, Sert & Wiener. She held a Ph.D. in Urbanism granted in 2010 by Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya UPC, Technical School of Architecture, Department of Urbanism and Territorial Planning, in Barcelona, Spain.