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Inés Santé Riveira holds a PhD in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Santiago de Compostela, with a thesis about rural land use planning which received an outstanding doctoral award. Her research lines include spatial planning, models and techniques for land use planning (multicriteria analysis, heuristic optimization and urban cellular automata), landscape planning and management, Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Decision Support Systems, public participation in land use planning and PPGIS, land management instruments and rural development.

Since 2005 she has been on the faculty of the Department of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where she is currently professor of GIS and land use planning. From 2015 to 2018 she was director of the Institute for Land Studies of the Regional Government of Galicia, where she led the development of the Landscape inventory of Galicia, the Guidelines of colour and materials of Galicia, the Guidelines for characterization and landscape integration of fences and the Strategy of green infrastructure of Galicia. From 2020 to 2024 she was general director of rural development and of the Galician Agency for rural development of the Regional Government of Galicia, contributing to the approval and application of the Law for the recovery of farmland in Galicia.