ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT PHD Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment With a dissertation on “An Urban Geography of Globalization: New Urban Structures in the Age of Hyper-Connectivity”, promotor: Professor Jurgen Rosemann. (2008) MASTER OF SCIENCE (POST-GRADUATE SCIENTIFIC MASTER) University of São Paulo, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism With a thesis on “The Faria Lima Urban Operation: a study of a partnership between public and private sectors in the city of São Paulo in the 1990s”. Funded by FAPESP (State of São Paulo Research Council), promotor: Professor Sueli Schiffer. (2003) GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM University of São Paulo, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism With a thesis on “Urban Transformation of the West of Sao Paulo under Conditions of Liberalization of the Economy”, promotor: Professor Vera Pallamin. (1995)
FUNDED PROJECTS 2016-2018: Researcher for COHESIFY: Funded under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, COHESIFY aims to understand what citizens think of the European Structural and Investment Funds, which invests more than €50 billion a year in projects creating jobs, promoting innovation, improving the environment and upgrading infrastructure in regions across the EU. A key question for this multi-disciplinary study is whether these investment funds affect people’s support for and identification with the European project. 2013-2016: Researcher at Planning for Energy Efficient Cities (FP7 project Energy-Smart Cities 2012) funded by the European Commission as partners with a number of municipalities and universities led by the city of Eskilstuna in Sweden. I am one of the people in charge of organising the work package of our university.
MEMBER OF DOCTORAL COMMITTEES DEC 2017. Dr. Irene Luque Martin, “Descodificando la Planificación Urbana Contemporánea: Hacia una alternativa metodológica para una planificación colaborativa”. University of Sevilla, Department of Urbanism and Territorial Management. Promotors: D.Victoriano Sainz Gutierrez and D. Antonio Piñero Valverde. JUNE 2016. Dr. Nabil Menhem, “The Role of the Resilience Concept in Informing Regional: Policy Approaches at Multiple Territorial Scales, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Planning. Promotor: Professor Bruno Dente, Chair of the Doctoral Program: Professor Costanzo Ranci.
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