Renata Silva holds a degree in Heritage Rehabilitation from the University of Aveiro (UA) and a master’s in Civil Engineering Structures from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), having developed her master’s thesis in the areas of inspection and diagnosis of existing buildings and sustainability.

In 2018, she participated in the inspection and diagnosis of the Old Cathedral of Coimbra, in a collaboration between the University of Aveiro and the Direção Regional da Cultura do Centro.

She joined NCREP in 2022, where she has participated in projects involving inspection, diagnosis and structural analysis of different structural systems, namely in buildings with heritage value such as the Monastery of S. Dinis at Odivelas.