Silvio CRISTIANO

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

since February 2023
Fixed-term Assistant Professor of URBANISM
Department of Architecture, Università degli Studi di Firenze (Florence, Italy)

October 2017 – ongoing
Honorary fellow and Member of the research group in INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS: Systems Thinking and EMergy Accounting
Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Venice, Italy)

April 2024
Erasmus+ Visiting Professor in ENVIRONMENTAL SPATIAL PLANNING
Division of Land and Tourism Studies, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland

February 2024
Visiting Researcher in URBANISM
Departament d'Urbanisme, Territori i Paisatge, Escola Tècnica Superior d'Architectura de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Catalunya/Spain)

May 2022 - December 2023
Member of the research group coordinated by Prof. Sandro Fabbro (REGIONAL PLANNING AND REGIONAL RESILIENCE), within the academic agreement with Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) for the scientific direction of FVG'sp Regional Masterplan
Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture, Università degli Studi di Udine

May 2023
Erasmus+ Visiting Professor in ENVIRONMENTAL SPATIAL PLANNING
Research Centre in Environmental Governance, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, Utrecht Universiteit (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

June 2022 – February 2023
PostDoc (SYSTEMS THINKING, ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS, URBAN AND REGIONAL DESIGN AND PLANNING)
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Venice, Italy)
Own project (winner of a selection): The next generation of the ecological footprint calculator: supporting a sustainable transition through systemically and biophysically informed design and planning

June 2020 – June 2022
PostDoc (ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING)
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Venice, Italy)

July 2018 – December 2019
PostDoc (URBAN METABOLISM AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY, CHINA-ITALY "GREAT RELEVANCE PROJECT")
Department of Science and Technology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope
 (Naples, Italy)
Project: Analysis on the metabolic process of urban agglomeration and the cooperative strategy of circular economy

Focus sectors: Buildings and built environment, Agri-food supply chains, Solid municipal waste, Wastewater, Electronic waste, Urban tourism
Funder: Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

November 2019
Visiting researcher
School of Environment, Beijing Normal Unversity (Beijing, China)

Since October 2016
Research collaborator
Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Venice, Italy)

October 2015 – September 2016
Research fellow
Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Project: Emergy evaluation of socio-sanitary facilities: the case of Italian NGO Emergency

March 2012 – December 2012
Research assistant (internship for Master's thesis)
Department of Civil Engineering, Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Rome, Italy)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

a.y. 2023/24
Instructor of URBAN DESIGN in the ARCHITECTURE AND TOWN lab
Department of Architecture, Università degli Studi di Firenze (Florence, Italy)

a.y. 2022/23, 2023/24
Adjunct professor of SUSTAINABILITY LABORATORY A (international Minor programme in 'Sustainability')
Ca' Foscari International College, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Venice, Italy)

a.y. 2021/22, a.y. 2022/23, a.y. 2023/24 (in 2023/24, free external supporto only)
Adjunct professor of ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS (international Minor programme in 'Sustainability')
Ca' Foscari International College, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Venice, Italy)

a.y. 2022/23
Adjunct professor of URBAN PLANNING REGULATIONS (Bachelor's programme in 'Building and Territorial Techniques')
Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Mechanical, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (Bologna, Italy)

a.y. 2022/23
Adjunct professor of MAKING THE CITIES RESILIENT LAB - OPTIMISING ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTIVENESS #3 (Master's programme in 'Architecture and Creative Practices for the City and Landscape')
Department of Architecture, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (Bologna, Italy)

a.y. 2021/22
Adjunct professor of REGIONAL PLANNING (international Master's programme in 'Environmental Engineering')
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Università degli Studi di Padova (Padua, Italy)

a.y. 2021/22
Assistant instructor in the course/atelier ARCHITECTURE, SOCIETY AND TERRITORY (international Master's programme in 'Architecture for Sustainable Design')
Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy)

a.y. 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24
Postdoctoral Teaching Assistant / Educational Assistant for the international Minor programme in ‘Sustainability’
 (courses: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS – IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABILITY: IDENTIFICATION, PREVENTION, MITIGATION, REMEDIATION – CLIMATE CHANGE – SUSTAINABILITY LABORATORY A & B)

Ca' Foscari International College (Venice, Italy)

a.y. 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23
Instructor (Visiting professor) of ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING AND SOCIETAL METABOLISM INDICATORS (Master of Advanced Studies in 'Socio-environmental sustainability of agri-food networks')
UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Development and Territory Management, Università di Torino (Turin, Italy)

a.y. 2020/21
Instructor of NEW RISKS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY | RISK ANALYSIS OF INVESTMENTS (Master of Advanced Studies in 'Expert technician of advanced services for building companies')
Department of Civil Engineering, Università degli Studi di Salerno (Salerno, Italy)

a.y. 2019/20, 2020/21
Assistant instructor of TERRITORIAL PRACTICES FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, Università degli Studi di Padova (Padua, Italy)

a.y. 2017/18
Graduate Teaching Assistant / Tutor for the Minor programme in ‘Sustainability’
 (courses: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS)
Ca' Foscari International College (Venice, Italy)

January 2013 – March 2013
Instructor
IES Abroad – Institute for the International Education of Students (Rome, Italy)

fFebruary 2010 – December 2012
Educational tutor
IES Abroad – Institute for the International Education of Students (Rome, Italy)

THESIS SUPERVISION
Co-supervisor and supervision/support activity for Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral theses in Urbanism, Architecture, Environmental Science, Urban and Regional Planning, Education Science, Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage, Asian and Mediterranean African languages economies and institutions, track Japan.

INVITED LECTURES
>50 guest lectures and presentations in Bachelor, Master, Doctoral, and other postgraduate schools and programmes at national and internationals universities (including: School of Environment, Beijing Normal University; Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Boston University; École d’Urbanisme de Paris; Technische Universität Wien; UNESCO Chair of Sustainable Development and Territory Management, Università di Torino; Politecnico di Torino; Università Iuav di Venezia; Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia; Università di Padova; Università di Udine; Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna; Università di Ferrara; Politecnico di Milano; Università degli Studi di Firenze)

AFFILIATIONS TO ACADEMIC SOCIETIES
Member of Italian Society of Urban Planners, the NO-CITY Network, the Postgrowth City Coalition, the Spaces Beyond Growth - Municipal Degrowth Network (co-founder), the Emergy Society – International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research, the European Society for Ecological Economics (paused), the Advances in Cleaner Production Network, the Italian Network for Food Policies, and the European Aquaculture Society.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

September 2022 – January 2023
Technical consultant: co-design and hydraulic study (ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN)
Latitude – Platform for urban research and design (Bruxelles, Belgium), within a design appointment by the City of Latina (Italy) to the temporary design association "ADLM Architetti & ORIZZONTALE", Project: “UPPER – realizzazione Parchi Produttivi urbani per lo sviluppo di tecnologie e servizi connessi a soluzioni basate sulla natura” [Programme: Urban Innovative Actions, European Union]

September 2019 – February 2020
Sustainability consultant for design and planning (ITALY-SWITZERLAND)
TAMassociati (Venice/Bologna/Trieste, Italy)

January 2016 – May 2018
Sustainability consultant (ITALIAN-SUDANESE COOPERATION)
(external, not directly paid: trilateral agreement with Ca’ Foscari and Iuav universities)
Humanitarian Office, Emergency Onlus NGO (Milan, Italy), Salam Cardio-surgical Centre (Khartoum, Sudan)

September 2017 – October 2017
Project output evaluator (ITALIAN-CAMEROUNESE COOPERATION)
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Venice, Italy)

Project: Water facility (Italian-Camerounese partnership with the Department of Civil, Building, and Environmental Enginnering, Università di Padova, and the National Advanced School of Public Works, Yaoundé, Cameroun)

November 2015 – December 2016
Project manager and designer (ITALIAN-SALVADOREAN COOPERATION)
Associazione Psicologi nel Mondo (Turin, Italy)

Project: Compost(h)emos (Italian-Salvadorean cooperation with NGO ADES Santa Marta, Guacotecti, El Salvador)

2015, various periods
Expert of architecture and urban studies (ITALY)
Urban Center Metropolitano (Turin, Italy), Programma Itinerari Urbani

July 2014 – September 2014
Consultant: participatory mapping, role games, and community planning for sustainable rural development (ITALIAN-SALVADOREAN COOPERATION)

Project: Ma.Sa.Ma (professionalising traineeship in collaboration with NGO ADES Santa Marta, Guacotecti, El Salvador)
Research and Documentation Centre 'Architecture and Cities in the Global South', Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy)

ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCD

Invited member, co-coordintor, and member of organising committees and secretariats for national and international conferences and workshops (main macro-sectors: International cooperation and South-North dialogue; Ecological sustainability and Social equity; Environmental Humanities); Executive secretary for the launch of the Chinese-Italian academic network 'Matteo Ricci' 利玛窦网络

Task coordinator (since 2020) and Work Package co-coordinator (2020) in European project

Consortium co-coordinator for H2020 proposal on vernacular buildings and cultures and bioclimatic settlements (Italy, Germany, Portugal, Senegal; outcome: good / very good proposal).

Assistant Director and Academic Coordinator for the Italian programmes (USA STUDY-ABROAD IN ITALY), Rome SAE Soc. Cooperativa, Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Italy (also on behalf of CISabroad, Northampton, MA, USA) (2013/14)

Moodle and Field Studies Coordinator (USA STUDY-ABROAD IN ITALY), IES Abroad – Institute for the International Education of Students (Rome, Italy) (2013)

AWARDS
Winner of national and international awards, including the Italian Urban Planning Society's Award for the Best Paper (Under 40) (2021), the Italian Evaluation Society's Award for the Best PhD Thesis (2019); awards for the best poster in international conferences (2018), Climathon Venice 2017 ‘Arts and Science for [Climate] Change’. Member of the winning team in an international competition for urban renewal (with architecture studio TAMassociati; customers: City of Bellinzona, Swiss Federal Republic, Swiss Railways).

EDITORIAL AND SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION EXPERIENCE
- Topic Board Editor and Guest Editor, Sustainability; Guest Editor, Tracce Urbane; Editorial Board Member of the journals Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, Eco-Cities, and Forum for Philosophical Studies
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Officina* (Italian qualified scientific journal) and of at least 6 international conferences
- Member of the National Jury, National Prize for Scientific Dissemination / Popular Writing
- Member of the Editorial Committee (Cristiano, S., Santagata, R., Spagnolo, S., & Zucaro, A.) of the volume: Gonella, F., & Liu, G. (Eds.) (2019). 3rd International School on Emergy Accounting Proceedings. Venice, Italy, May 21-25, 2018. Coop. Libraria Editrice Università di Padova, Padua, Italy. (ISBN 978-88-5495-110-5)
- Reviewer of research proposals, Estonian Research Council (2021), Austrian Science Fund (2022), COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology (2023)
- Reviewer of scientific papers (for journals: Cogent Environmental Science | Sustainable Environment; Environment, Development and Sustainability; IET Intelligent Transport Systems; Journal of Cleaner Production; Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management; Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews; Shima Journal; Sulla Via del Catai; Visions for Sustainability; Frontiers in Sustainable Cities; Officina*; Arabian Journal of Geosciences; Urban Studies).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- >70 contributions and national and international congresses and conferences, including 16 as an invited speaker and 1 as a keynote speaker
- Organisation of special sessions in international conferences
- Chair person, coordinator, and moderator of sessions in national and international conferences

EDUCATION

PhD (excellent, cum laude)
ARCHITECTURE, CITY, AND DESIGN - NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE REGION, THE CITY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Università Iuav di Venezia, November 2014 – May 2018

Postgraduate Course of Advanced Studies (with final exam)
LOCAL PARTICIPATORY ACTION AND PUBLIC DEBATE
Università Iuav di Venezia, January 2017 – June 2017

PhD visiting periods
ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCES, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Department of Science and Technology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, December 2015 and May 2016

Postgraduate Course of Advanced Studies (with final presentation)
HABITAT, TECHNOLOGY, AND DEVELOPMENT

Politecnico di Torino, November 2013 – December 2014
key subjects: building technologies for international cooperation; regional and environmental planning; post-disaster planning / emergency management

Master of Science's degree
CIVIL ENGINEERING (focus: Transport infrastructures)
Università degli Studi Roma Tre, March 2009 – December 2012

key subjects: integrated design of transport networks and infrastructures; environmental analysis; natural hazards

Exchange period
WINNER OF AN ERASMUS STUDY ABROAD GRANT

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, September 2007 – January 2008

Bachelor of Science's degree
CIVIL ENGINEERING (Italian Ministry sector: Civil and environmental engineering)

Università degli Studi Roma Tre, October 2005 – February 2009

also including exams such as: urban and regional planning; urban sociology

Language certificate
FCE (current B2 First)

University of Cambridge (ESOL examinations), July 2004

LANGUAGES
Italian (mother tongue)
English (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
French (intermediate/advanced)
Portuguese and Chinese (beginner)

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
Civil and environmental engineer
Università degli Studi Roma Tre, 2013, Winter session

OTHER EDUCATION
Completion of >10 academies, winter/summer schools, and excellence doctoral courses (at universities such as: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Venice International University, Politecnico di Torino e University of Maryland) and additional training and ongoing training courses (permaculture; life-cycle assessment; food, city, and territories - teaching sustainability within United Nations' Agenda 2030).