Franklim Morais (b. 1957) is a Portuguese civil and electronic engineer, PhD Professor and Researcher. He was the leader of development teams of private commercial software for scientific applications: pioneering, in the early 1980s, the use of finite element methods for structural engineering on microcomputing; and since early 1990s, developing COTS private hardware and software systems for smart buildings, urban spaces and cities. He is an Invited Professor at ESAP (Arts University of Porto), in the Architecture Programme, since 2001. He participates in LIAD, an academic research team, in a group dedicated to Formal Methods in Architecture. A major achievement is the production of DepthSpace3D and SCAVATools, digital tools for space syntax analysis. Since 1991, he participated in the organization (scientific and operational committees) of eleven conferences on his scientific fields of interest, including the five symposia of the series ‘Formal Methods in Architecture’ (since 2011).