Claudia De Luca

Claudia de Luca is a Junior Assistant Professor of the Department of Architecture, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. She is an Environmental scientist (MSc), now focusing on sustainable urban and spatial planning and urban and rural regeneration processes. 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.

At the moment, she works on two main research topics: rural regeneration through heritage-led strategies within the RURITAGE project, and the use of nature into the cities for sustainable and resilient future as main topic of her PhD research. Involved in the Planning and Regeneration research group, she is now actively involved in several EU funded project (TExTOUR, MATCH-UP and ClimateKIC ACTonNBS) and she is part of the coordination team of the RURITAGE project, specifically supporting case studies in developing and implementing their heritage-led regeneration strategies.