Benedetta Baldassarre

Benedetta Baldassarre is a research fellow at the Department of Architecture, University of Bologna. Building engineer and architect, she obtained a PhD in Spatial Planning in 2025, with a thesis entitled ‘Adaptive cultural tourism in rural areas: a framework to support planners and decision makers in a changing climate’. In 2023, she spent a period of research abroad at Wageningen University & Research.

Since 2021, she has been a member of the Planning & Regeneration group. She mainly deals with climate adaptation and territorial risk analysis, urban and rural regeneration, and participatory processes. She is involved in European (RescueME, TRIGGER) and national (QUI Val di Fiastra) research projects.

Since 2025, she has been an adjunct professor for the courses Analysis of Urban and Territorial Systems (Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering) and Planning in a Changing Society (Department of Architecture).