Tenure track professorship at the Polytechnic of Turin (Associate Professor licence gained in 2017), I have a synergistic path covering Engineering, Architecture, Economic Assessments (Polytechnic of Turin), Urbanism (University of Campinas), Anthropology (University of Oxford), Urban Life (Harvard University), with two degrees cum laude, a PhD and a Post-PhD.
In December 2017 I decided to resign from my permanent position as Head of Urban Environment at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and I was visiting researcher at, among many, the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and ETH Zurich.
I worked in projects for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Commission, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and currently for a Grand Challenges Small Grant (Future Urban Growth Lab) from University College London. I am also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth and a member at the University of Birmingham.
My works touch human societies and progress from different angles. Currently I am studying relationships among urbanicity level, urban allometry, urban forms and psycho-socio-economic-environmental costs/benefits, and about new possibilities for urban morphogenesis futures.
I have visited or lived 338 places among rural villages, towns, cities and megacities, which helps me feeling human settlements beyond books.
Research output:
I keep a balance between theoretical and empirical research, as well as single and co-authored outputs and between humanistic and quantitative-technical contents.