Education

University degrees, diplomas and academic public assessments

2021 - Habilitation in Italy to professorship, as Full Professor of Urban and Territorial Planning, ANVUR

2014 - Italian habilitation (agregação) to professorship, as associate professor in Town and Territorial Planning, ASN (National Habilitation Agency Italy)

2001 - Diploma in the training cours on GIS (Geographic Information System), Cesit/Universidade de Florença

2000 - Ph.D. in Urban, Territorial and Environmental Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Universty of Florence, Italy

1996 - Bachelors degree in Architecture, majoring in architectural planning, with the mark 110 cum laude/110, "Recinti cimiteriali e paesaggio urbano. I camposanti del territorio fiorentino tra soppressioni e permanenze"., Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence, Italy

1989 - High School, Classic Studies, Liceu Michelangelo - Florence, Italy.

Field of specialisation

Citizen Participation in Local Planning and Budgeting

Deliberative Processes on the European Green Deal

Evaluation of Cooperation Projects

ICT technologies for civic participation

Participatory Budgeting

Platform economies

Requalification of Informal settlements

Student accomodation in the internacionalization of Universities

Territorial analysis in developing countries

Urban and environmental planning

Urban gardening and (peri)urban agriculture

Other fields

Democratisation of local institutions

Excentric uses of public space and practices of 'insurgent citzenship'

Inclusive Cities and Spatial Exclusion

Mobilidade Academica e Alojamento Estudantil

Novas tecnologias e participação

Requalification of self produced relocated areas

The role of Participation and Integral Ecology in the Message of Catholic Church

The use of emotions in populist political forces ​

Urban management