Vitor grew up in São Paulo (Brazil) and studied architecture in Switzerland (B.Sc. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, M.Sc. Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio). Since 2016, he has carried research on urbanization processes in Brazil, where he has developed participatory, "citizen mapping" methods that provide spatial information useful to support humanitarian action in vulnerable human settlements ("favelas"). Now he carries a PhD project at EPFL's CEAT unit to investigate the impacts of the urban form on people's health in the context of rapid/unplanned urbanization, analyzing the cases of Nairobi (Kenya) and Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire).