SILVIA ARU

Silvia Aru (PhD) has specialised in human geography since her Master’s degree at the University of Florence (2005). Her training progressed at the University of Trieste (2009), where she obtained a doctorate in Geohistory and Geoeconomics of the Border Regions. She carried out research, in particular empirical, in various Italian contexts (Florence, Cagliari, Turin, Ventimiglia), as well as abroad (Vancouver, Rio de Janeiro, Amsterdam), in academic and non-academic fields.

During her ten-year post-doc, she has participated in various projects working with numerous Universities and Research centres. In particular, she teamed with the LaGeS (Social Geography Laboratory) of the University of Florence (2009-2011), the EU-POLIS Research Center (University and Polytechnic of Turin) (2012-2013), and the LADEST (Historic Economic Data Laboratory for Territorial Studies - University of Siena) (2017-2018); all research centres dealing with the analysis of European and Mediterranean cities, spatial planning and policy analysis at local and supra-local level. Between 2014 and 2016, she participated in the research project "Space Justice and Mediterranean territorial systems. Stories and narratives of urban space", coordinated by the University of Cagliari. From 2017 to 2018, as a research fellow in the UNSNDN MED-Educational Program (University of Siena), she was involved in the activities of the MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research) Working Group on ‘School, University and Research for Agenda 2030’, coordinated by Prof. Enrico Giovannini. She has recently completed the FI Marie-Curie project “A Place for the Asylum Seekers. European migration policies and their socio-spatial impacts” at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) of the University of Amsterdam (2018-2020). She is also a committee member of the Association of Italian Geographers (AGeI) and part of the editorial committee of the Rivista Geografica Italiana.