CENSE - Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research

Researcher

IED Barcelona

Interdisciplinary projects (designing for the many, united in yachting, Master in Design for Urban Environment, Module on Tech Transitions)

Lecturer

 Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership

Alumni

TrUST - Transdisciplinarity for Urban Sustainability Transitions

2019 | 
Principal Investigator at TrUST - Transdisciplinarity for Urban Sustainability Transition. It is a research project that aims at a better understanding of how to achieve more efficient and effective inter/trans-disciplinary research and education for urban sustainability transitions.

Principal Investigator

Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Master's Degree in City Resilience Design and Management - Module of News And career path aiming at building a community of practice.

Politecnico di Torino

To support decision-making for sustainability transformations requires more than what a classic approach to appraisal and valuation can do. That is why I am now interested in social practices of SSH-STEM Collaboration, Transdisciplinary Research Methods, Co-creative/Participatory Engagements, Integration Science, Team Science, Organizational Change, International Liaisons Management, System Dynamic, Transformative Sustainability Education and Innovative Learning Tools for Sustainability. I acquired those competencies in my working life not only as a practitioner but also as a researcher – sometimes as an academic, sometimes as a consultant with public and private stakeholders. Over the past ten years, I have accumulated expertise in the design, management, monitoring and impact assessment of research programmes and projects, especially those relating to the built environment and energy transitions. I love to be involved in these projects, both in the carving of the proposal and its actual implementation, especially as an event and workshop organiser and facilitator. The transdisciplinary literacy learned by doing and envisioning stakeholder dialogue exercises has taken me all over European and overseas Universities, learning from the best how to cope with uncertainties and how to share a meaningful, new, regenerative sustainability paradigm.

Assistant Professor in Decision Making for SDGs

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Polytechnic of Turin in the following projects (Marie-Curie, FP7, H2020 funded) | 2013– on going

o	Shape-Energy: Social Sciences and Humanities for Advancing Policy in European Energy, a €2m investment through the EU Horizon 2020 programme - www.shapeenergy.eu
o	COST action Restore: REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy - https://eurestore.wordpress.com/
o	“URBE – Understanding the Relationship Between Urban Form and Energy Consumption Through Behavioral Patterns”, Siebel Grant 2016
o	“HOME – Human Observation Meta Environment, in collaboration with HER- Human Ecosystem Relazioni, UniTO GreenTO, DIST department.
o	Italian Network of Sustainable Campuses (RUS), Energy and Education working gropus
o	UNI-Metrics: Value Metrics and Policies for a Sustainable University Campus
o	DIMMER: District Information Modeling and Management for Energy Reduction
o	S3+Lab: Urban Sustainability & security laboratory for social challenges
o	MILESECURE-2050: Multidimensional impact of the low carbon European strategy on energy security, and socio-economic dimension up to 2050 perspective
o	EIT ICT LAB: action line "SES Smart Energy Systems”, in collaboration with INRIA (FR) and the Department of politics, cultures and society of the University of Turin 
o	Territories in Crisis: the retooling of architecture and urban planning facing of changing economic and institutional logics / with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
o	POLITOWARD: Toward a tangibly sustainable university campus. Project Manager, Communication Manager, Web Manager. Info: www.politoward.org
o	POCACITO: Post-Carbon City of Tomorrow 
o	ICT2B - Bridging the Entrepreneurial Gap, Transforming European ICT research into Investment Opportunities. Fraunhofer - Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertun http://www.ict2b.org/

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

I am co-managing the new-born Politecnico di Torino (PoliTO) “Green Team”, an internal group of professors, students, administrative staff and researchers that encourages PoliTO to address environmental and social challenges. This team is intended to lead the PoliTO towards the university sustainability mission, as stated in the Horizon 2020 strategic plan: a comprehensive integration of sustainability into the university research, teaching, outreach and operations that prepares students, faculty and staff to be sustainability leaders in their professional, personal and civic lives. My task so far included:
- the support for the creation of a Green Team student, with the organisation of a Green Storming event and call for bottom-up ideas for co-creating the University' sustainability policies and actions of 2018
- coordinating, organising and promoting Green Team activities during the Night of Researchers (September 29, 2017), with a stand on projects in various areas (waste, food, mobility, energy, education, urban outreach)
- listening and reporting in the decision-making meetings initiatives and ideas by students and teachers gathered via mail, facebook, or during public events
- creating and updating the Sustainable Path website, coordinating the part time resources that helps the Green Team office on communication issues (www.campus-sostenibile.polito.it)
To this I added another web site, designed and managed entirely by me, created for the sustainability week and other urban outreach events: www.politoward.org 
- Advising PoliTo's government bodies on issues related to environmental sustainability at the University
- writing and publishing the Politecnico's sustainability report (November 2016)
- Organising the first "sustainability week", a week of events, exhibitions, debates and many initiatives dedicated to sustainability, with 50 events, more than 200 contributions (events, exhibitions, graduate theses, posters) and more than 1,500 people involved

Sustainability Manager

Pontificia Universidad Cat��lica de Chile

Visiting Researcher

Humboldt University of Berlin

University of Lisbon

I worked with Olivia Bina on Human-Nature-Relationships transformation, and the extent to which Nature-Based-Solutions can be designed as spaces where people can a) explore their
relationship as humans to Nature (system knowledge shift), b) envision more desirable ways of relating to Nature (cognitive shift).

CIEMAT

Titles | 
Chartered Architect, PhD in Environment and Territory, MSc in Renewable Energy and Architecture, MArch in Architecture and Building Engineering 

Current roles | 
Transdisciplinary Researcher at CENSE (Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, Lisbon); Alumni at the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership (Berlin & Multiple Locations); Lecturer at the MSc in Urban Resilience, UIC, Barcelona); Professor at the MSc in Urban Tech Transition, IED, Barcelona).

Skills | 
Interaction and Implementation Expert, Advocate of subversiveness, Problem Framer, Interdisciplinary Executive Scientist, Sustainability Transition Manager, Transformative Learning Designer and Facilitator 

Research topics | 

SSH-STEM Collaboration, Transdisciplinary Research Methods, University Campus Sustainability Management, Transformative Sustainability Education, Transformative Learning.

My motto |
Be the change you want to see in the world!

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