Claudia De Luca

Claudia de Luca is a Junior Assistant Professor of the Department of Architecture. She is an Environmental scientist (MSc), and before joining the University, she worked for 4 years in the Research and Innovation team of a Spanish consultancy, mostly focusing on the development and implementation of European funded projects on environmental issues.

She obtains her PhD degree in 2021 with a thesis titled 'Greening the city: an ecosystem-based framework to support planning towards urban sustainability and resilience'. In 2019 she spent a visiting semester at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain (ICTA-UAB) and in 2020 she collaborated with the Sustainable Earth Institute at the University of Plymouth (UK). Since 2017 she has been part of the research group 'Planning and Regenration'. Since February 2022, she his a Junior Assistant Professor (PON Green Innovation funds) and she is mainly working on climate and spatial justice in urban and rural areas also through collaboration with various European (RURACTIVE, TexTOUR, TRIGGER and RescueME) and national (Qui Val di Fiastra Bando Borghi) projects.