I am an Environmental Engineer, passionate about urban planning and sustainable development, with an attitude towards multidisciplinary research. During last years I have worked in the field of research and consultancy, both in the private and public sectors, in Italy and abroad. My research objective is contributing to making life in cities more equitable and sustainable, my main research interests are urban planning, ecosystem services modeling, social media data for cultural ecosystem services
●Work Experience●
October 2023 — Present - "Urban Planner - data science for urban design" at Laboratorio Roma 050 of Risorse per Roma spa
Spatial analysis, urban and environmental planning and design for the Municipality of Rome.
November 2020 — Present
Ph.D. candidate in Economic Geography, University La Sapienza, Rome
Department: Memotef. Visiting doctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB, research group: BCNUEJ lab (https://www.bcnuej.org/about/)
March 2020-November 2020
Lecturer for workshop series at Kyotoclub, Rome
Preparation of the teaching material and holding the online lessons in English for the European project "Sustainable civil society dialogue for sustainable development (SCSD-SD)"
November 2019 — March 2020
GIS specialist at SETIN S.r.l., Rome
GIS specialist and environmental consultant for international projects (“Mainstreaming biodiversity conservation into the tourism sector in synergy with a further strengthened protected areas system in Cabo Verde”, executed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (MAA); sea forest LIFE)
August 2019 — August 2020
Environmental consultant at CREA (Council for Agricultural Research and Economics), Research centre of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, Rome
Writing of public call for the management of water resources for irrigation for the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies; Verification and elaboration of territorial data in QGIS for the proper management of irrigation projects and infrastructures; support in writing the guidelines for the National Rural development Program; writing and correction of scientific articles
May 2019 — July 2019
Urban green planner at Municipality of Rome, XIII Municipality, Rome
Development of the project of bottom-up urban regeneration of the “Park System” of the district of Torrevecchia: environmental and urban analysis in QGIS; process of participatory planning; graphic project in AutoCAD and Photoshop
November 2018 — May 2019
Guest Researcher at IRI THESys - Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
Research grant from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
July 2014 — December 2014
Internship at ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Rome
Curricular internship for the European project "HRL Enhancement report Degree of Imperviousness”, commissioned by the European Environmental Agency
●Education●
October 2010
State examination enabling to the profession of Engineer, University of La Sapienza, Rome
January 2018
Master’s degree in “Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Urban Planning”, University La Sapienza of Rome, Graded 108/110. Master thesis in urban and environmental planning: “Public Spaces in Tor Bella Monaca: scenarios of urban regeneration from bottom-up”
January 2015 — July 2015
Erasmus semester at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn
November 2014
Bachelor’s degree in “Environmental Engineering”, University La Sapienza, Rome
July 2010
Scientific high school Diploma, Liceo Virgilio di Roma, Rome
●Scholarships and research grants●
2020-Ph.D. grant from University La Sapienza of Rome
2015- Scholarship Erasmus+, Tallinn
2018- Internship grant "Torno Subito" from Region Lazio
2018- Research grant “Short term research” from DAAD, Berlin
●Conferences, Seminars, and Volunteering●
2023 - Seminar at the "Urban Design Studio" course by Stefano Boeri, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano.
2023 - Seminar at the course “Policies and actions for climate change mitigation” by Luca Brignone, faculty of civil, building and environmental engineering, La Sapienza.
2022 - 4th ESP Europe Conference - Ecosystem services empowering people and societies in times of crises - Heraklion, Greece
2019 - Biennale of the Public Space, Rome
Participation and exposition for the XIII Municipality, Museum Macro of Testaccio, Rome
I there presented the project I developed and exposed panels in the exhibition dedicated to roman Municipalities
2019 - Workshop “How to design visual storylines to communicate your research”, Berlin, research institute “IRI-THESys” di Berlino
●Languages●
Italian -Mother tongue
English -C1
Spanish- B2
French -A2
German- A1
●Competenze digitali●
QGIS -Excellent
Python - Good
Office Package (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) -Excellent
AutoCAD -Basic
Photoshop- Basic
●Contacts●
giulia.benati@.uniroma1.it