Ana María Fernández-Maldonado is a senior researcher working at the Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy of the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology, where she works since 1992. Her professional experience includes work as an architect and urban designer in her own design office in partnership with two other architects in Lima, Peru; as urban planner in a district municipality in Lima and as urban researcher of urban trends in informal settlements of Lima.

Currently, she is member of the editorial board of two academic journals, has presented her work in many international conferences and published her work in academic journals and books. She has presented her work as keynote speaker at the 42th ISOCARP Congress in Istanbul (2006); Knowledge Cities World Summit in Melbourne (2010); and the International Congress Cities of People  in Rio de Janeiro (2012). She has also been invited to present her results in the universities of de Utrecht, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Venice, Mexico City, Ciudad Juarez and Lima. Her research interest is related to planning and urban transformations European and Latin American cities, which include ICT-related transformations, knowledge-based urban development, telecommunications and urban infrastructures, housing and planning policies and comparative studies.