CEG Awards 2025 Scientific Article Prize to Young Researchers

Andry Castro and Diogo Silva were honored for their scientific achievements in Physical and Human Geography.

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The Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG) has announced the winners of the 2025 Scientific Article Prize: Andry Castro, in the field of Physical Geography and Spatial Planning, and Diogo Silva, in the field of Human Geography and Spatial Planning.

The award aims to distinguish young researchers from CEG for the merit of their scientific activity, recognizing excellent work published in scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science.
The award ceremony took place on September 23rd, at 2:30 PM, in the Jorge Gaspar Conference Room at IGOT. The event included presentations of the distinguished articles.
The awarded articles were: 'Large language models overcome the challenges of unstructured text data in ecology', by Castro, A., Pinto, J., Reino, L., Pipek, P., & Capinha, C. (2024), published in Ecological Informatics; and '“We are the forerunners in Southern Europe”: experimenting with Business Improvement Districts in greater Barcelona', by Silva, D. G., Frago, L., & Ward, K. (2024), published in Urban Geography.
This award reinforces CEG's commitment to valuing the scientific research developed by its young researchers and promoting excellence in scientific production in Geography.
Based on information from the official source: IGOT - Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território (ULisboa) (24/09/2026)