Raquel  Pelayo (Portugal) is an auxiliary professor of Drawing 1 and Drawing 2 for the master's degree in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Oporto University (FAUP). She owns a degree in Fine Arts - Painting (FBAUP), a master's degree in Art History (FLUP), and a Ph.D. in Education (FPCEUP). She is an Integrated Researcher at the Research Institute for Art Design and Society (I2ADS) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. She researches drawing, drawing and cognition, art education, and art history, published three books and is writting another.