The Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance – Sapienza University of Rome
MEMOTEF has as its mission the creation of an advanced scientific research context, both nationally and internationally, based on the integration of methods, tools and approaches aimed at multidisciplinary conceptual description and the analysis of economic phenomena, land management and to support decisions in the financial sector. It promotes and coordinates research activities on the following topics: probability theory and statistical modelling; mathematical models, statistical and computational economics, finance and insurance; methods for social research, population and policy analysis; methods for linguistic research, languages and foreign cultures; economic and spatial analysis; economic history and regional studies.
The Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences – University of Siena
DISPOC is a research centre common to all scholars of social, political and cognitive sciences at the University of Siena who are interested in working in a multidisciplinary manner, while respecting the different disciplinary profiles. Reflecting this high degree of disciplinary and methodological pluralism is the fact that DISPOC brings together lecturers from 19 scientific-disciplinary sectors. The department is made up of around 60 lecturers, 16 administrative and technical staff, around 30 research fellows and around 2,000 students enrolled in Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD courses. DISPOC has taken part, also as lead partner, in numerous national and international research projects. Users of such research often include local authorities and national and foreign public players.
Research Units
Sapienza University of Rome
Chiara Certomà: PhD in “Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability” at Sant’Anna School (Pisa), Assistant Professor in Political-Economic Geography, Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on STS (Graz), at Ghent University and at Earth System Governance Research Network (Utrecht University).
Interested in innovative modes of urban governance and planning in the face of environmental challenges and the digital turn. Expertise on informal social planning, participatory research and citizen science. Research and teaching in high education institutions (The Open University, Milton Keynes; Universitè Paris 1 “La Sorbonne”; Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich; Warsaw University of Life Sciences; University Paris Lodron Salzburg; BOKU University Wien; Waikato University). Personal web site: https://crowdusg.net/; Orcid: 0000-0002-7154-0915; Research ID Web of Science/Publon: D-1193-2014
University of Siena
Venere Stefania Sanna: economic geographer and economist, who, in addition to having participated in numerous national and international research projects, possesses proven expertise on the issues of social and environmental sustainability of territorial development projects and participatory approaches (https://docenti.unisi.it/it/sanna)
Pouya Sepehr, a fellow researcher at the University of Siena’s Department of Social Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC), focuses on the intersection of science, technology, environmental, and urban studies. Holding a PhD in STS from the University of Vienna, Pouya examines the societal impacts of technological advancements in relation to urban spaces. His academic roles have spanned from University Assistant to Research Fellow and Lecturer, specializing in digital social innovation and urban governance. Presently, he’s invested in multi-species urbanism to promote urban resilience and sustainability, blending theoretical insights with practice based experimentation for advancing urban sustainability futures.
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