Senior Scientific Assistant

• May 2021 - Present

Sustainability in the Humanitarian sector (protracted crises and post-disaster reconstruction, informal settlements)Focal point ETHZ for the Engineering Humanitarian Initiative ETHZ + ICRC WatHab/Health Unit "Building Resilience in Health Infrastructure" case study: Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Beirut (Lebanon) 6/22-2/24 Project manager for the Global Shelter Cluster ECHO-funded activity "Optimal energy options for IDPs" via UNHCR 2/22-6/23Project manager (ETHZ) for the Sustainable Construction in Humanitarian Action with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Building 2050 group (EPFL). Project objective: development of a design and management assistance tool to enhance sustainable construction projects in war and crisis-affected contexts.Coordinator ETHZ MOOC "regenerative construction" (under development) to be launched end 2022, addressing sustainable construction and materials, as earth and bio-based, with a specific target on the Global South.

Doctoral Student

• Dec 2016 - Apr 2021

Doctoral thesis in Sustainable Construction - Civil Engineering " The regenerative development potential of the construction sector in the informal cities: the cases of Bangkok, Nairobi and Cape Town". Objective: achieve a multiscalar and transdisciplinary understanding of the current building and supply practices in the informal settlements. Based on that, identify paths for the implementation of appropriate, and socio-economically valuable, sustainable technologies capable of contributing to environmental, social and economic wellbeing according to the regenerative approach.Case study: Mathare (Nairobi, Kenya); Khlong Toei and Bang Bua (Bangkok, Thailand),; Philippi and Joe Slovo Park (Cape Town, South Africa).research projects beyond the PhD:-collaboration with the IFRC-Shelter Research Unit for the development of guidelines-collaboration with the UN-HABITAT Housing Unit for the promotion of sustainable guidelines for housing development in the Global South- development of a methododology for the selction of appropriate technologies for post disaster reconstruction in remote areas: the case of the Thame Valley, Nepal.- sustainability assessment of 15Post Disaster shelters from the International Federation of the Red Cross according to their upscaling capacity

Scientific Research Assistant

• Mar 2015 - Nov 2016

Scientific Assistant:- assessment of Post Disaster assessment toolboxes and methods: sustainability,performance, stakeholders involved and resiliency -rammed recycled concrete fines structural material development

Architect / Researcher in the Humanitarian sector

• Mar 2012 - Present

Liveinslums NGO is a international cooperation agency based in Milan (Italy) involved in slum upgrade researches and projects in the fields of Documentation, Architecture and Horticulture.My involvemente as a researcher and architect concerns:-research, project and foundraising from the headoffice in Milan (Italy)-MATHARE SLUM / NAIROBI KENYA school upgrade communitary construction in Mathare slum.from iron sheet to timber + mud + bamboo sustainable low-tech upgrade (7/8 2012 - 9/10 2014)THE CITY OF THE DEAD Al Qarafa SLUM / IL CAIRO EGYPT horticultural project in the inhabited monumental necropolis of The City of the Dead. (4/6 2013)www.liveinslums.org

international cooperator

• Apr 2013 - Jun 2013

Horticultural and social project in the informal area of The City Of the Dead - El Cairo (monumental cementery).The project aims to create a communitary network in the slum by spreading knowledge about hydroponical horticultural techniques, so to be able to work on the nutritional conditions of the inhabitants. The work involves both private family areas and a communitarian training center.

architect

• Sep 2012 - Oct 2012

Liveinslums developed the reconstruction of the WhyNotAcademy Junior School in Mathare slum, in Nairobi area.The wood and clay construction has been realized by a working team composed by Liveinslums ngo Italian members and local builders.

Researcher / Construction Coordinator (architect)

• Jul 2013 - Jul 2014

Researcher and architect for ETH Zurich - Chair of Architecture of A. Brillembourg and H. Klumpner (ETH-Zurich) Urban Think-Tank on informal settlements and slum upgrade. Current task: BARCELONA (on field) construction coordinator for a temporary rammed earth + timber installation in Barceloneta (Re.Set Barcelona project: ETH Zurich Urban Think-Tank in collaboration with ESARQ, Recetas Urbanas, Fundación Miralles, Martin Rauch) April-June 2014 Previously (July2013 -March2014): shack prototype project for the South African slum of Khayelitsha, in collaboration with Ikhalayami ngo, Shacks/Dwellings International NGO (Em-Power Shack summer school prototype + SLUM Lab + on field project 2014). phase 1: research (urban scale --> technology) phase 2: prototype construction in Glarus, CH during ETH Summerschool phase 3: research + project upgrade + on field construction in Cape Town, South Africa phase 4 (february 2014): SLUM lab Publication (ETH Zurich + Columbia university) + exhibition in PresenHuber Gallery, Zurich

technical assistant

• Jan 2013 - Mar 2013

Sustainable construction of a bakery school in a rural village in Guatemala. Project developed by AK0 Roma -architettura a km0- in association with Sulla Strada Onlus. Building materials: wood, rammed earth, bambù. Sustainable construction of a bakery school in a rural village in Guatemala. Project developed by AK0 Roma -architettura a km0- in association with Sulla Strada Onlus. Building materials: wood, rammed earth, bambù.

Assistant Professor

• Sep 2011 - Sep 2012

Assistant Professor for Cesare Macchi Cassia's course in Urban Planning, Master Degree course in Science of Architecture Assistant Professor for Cesare Macchi Cassia's course in Urban Planning, Master Degree course in Science of Architecture

cofounder and team member

• Jul 2012 - Aug 2012

BigMamas Team is a group of four Italian girlfriends traveling all the way from Italy to Mongolia on a 2003 Fiat Panda raising money for Save the Children and The Lotus Children Center onlus, as a team of The Mongol Rally Charity Race 2012. BigMamas Team is a group of four Italian girlfriends traveling all the way from Italy to Mongolia on a 2003 Fiat Panda raising money for Save the Children and The Lotus Children Center onlus, as a team of The Mongol Rally Charity Race 2012.

arch collaboratore

• Sep 2011 - Dec 2011

collaborator

• Mar 2011 - Sep 2011

member of the organization for the international workshop concerning sustainable technologies and architecture, based in Thessaloniki (GR) and for the first time heading to Italy. member of the organization for the international workshop concerning sustainable technologies and architecture, based in Thessaloniki (GR) and for the first time heading to Italy.

Architect

• 2010 - 2010