Experience

UNESCO Chair on Urban Resilience (SDU_Resilience)

• Denmark
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PHD Student

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Planning for urban resilience: a multi-risk approach for floods and droughts UNESCO Chair on Urban Resilience at the University of Southern Denmark Civil and Architectural Engineering, Department of Technology and Innovation, Faculty of Engineering Water has always driven human civilisation, a key defining factor for cities’ development. However, climate change alters the water cycle, making it increasingly difficult to predict the intensity and frequency of climate hazards, such as floods and droughts. In 2022 and 2023, water-related threats made the news, accounting for 90% of all natural hazards worldwide (Pakistan submerged after monsoon floods, the Greater Horn of Africa drought is forecasted to continue for the fifth year, and North Italy with 36,000 people displaced). In this framework, drought and floods are the hazards responsible for most losses and damage worldwide: higher temperatures lead to greater water evaporation, generating drier soils and more catastrophic flood events, creating a vicious circle in which the two hazards mutually enhance their impacts. Nevertheless, their impacts are even more amplified when they happen cyclically in the same places, as short, fierce bursts of rain punctuate long dry spells, especially in cities, characterised by high density and uncontrolled population growth. There is small integration of floods and droughts in research, policy and practices, and there is little focus on cities, particularly in defining joint causes, effects and solutions in cities. Moreover, floods and droughts have not been considered in the context of risk reduction in a unified manner: there is a lack of consideration of city exposure and population vulnerability. The research aims at understanding compound causes, impacts and possible solutions to floods and droughts in the frame of urban planning and mapping urban areas at risk of floods and droughts to understand how cities react to these hazards when they occur simultaneously. Show less



Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark

• Denmark
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2021 - May 2023



Politecnico di Torino

• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tutoring, Politecnico di Torino - DIST

  • Mar 2017 - Feb 2021

  Subjects: Urban planning; Territorial governance in Europe; Drawing and representation; Atelier - City and Territory. Responsibility: Assist students during exercises, produce materials and presentations for lessons, build exercises, carry out some lessons on territorial and urban analysis and use of software (AutoCad, Photoshop and Indesign). Subjects: Urban planning; Territorial governance in Europe; Drawing and representation; Atelier - City and Territory. Responsibility: Assist students during exercises, produce materials and presentations for lessons, build exercises, carry out some lessons on territorial and urban analysis and use of software (AutoCad, Photoshop and Indesign).



Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark

• Denmark
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • Jul 2020 - Dec 2020

  Research project on urban content within National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) under the Cancun Adaptation Framework (CAF). The internship is part of the master´s programme in Urban and Regional Planning.Collaboration in: Postproduction of the SDU Summer School on Urban Resilience 2020; Co-Design for Urban Resilience education and capacity building, Speerhead projects

• SDU Summer School on Urban Resilience

  • Aug 2020 - Aug 2020

  Member of the secretary of SDU Summer School on Urban Resilience. Copenhagen, 3-14 August 2020. Urban resilience, international policies, state-of-the-art research, multi-level governance, appropriate technology, Urban metabolism, Nature Based Solutions, planning & design, participatory process & stakeholders’ involvement, co-benefits, finance, process design methodology, systems approach.



Comune di Avigliana

• Avigliana, Piedmont, Italy

• Internship at Urban Planning Office, Municipality of Avigliana (TO)

  • Mar 2018 - Jul 2018

  Monitoring of impacts of structural variants to the Avigliana Municipal Master Plan. Main topic: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), urban planning. Monitoring of impacts of structural variants to the Avigliana Municipal Master Plan. Main topic: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), urban planning.