PhD candidate to be involved in this project is expected to have interest in theoretical perspective on Nature Based Solution (NBS) and spatial analytical tools for Sustainable Smart urban planning, competencies in LCA methodologies and GIS mapping for environmental evaluation. Moreover, the candidate should be familiar with the social research methodologies to provide appropriate approaches to engage citizen in the co-creation design of NBS.

The PhD activities will be a joint research activities between Politecnico di Torino (https://www.Dist.Polito.It/) and EURAC research center (https://www.Eurac.Edu/en). The activity will mostly take place in the (S3+Lab) “Urban Sustainability & Security Laboratory for Social Challenges” laboratory which is part of the SDG11Lab of the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, which integrates all existing relevant platforms and operating solutions for providing an infrastructure with a horizontal component, able to guarantee efficient access to general and reference data sources, and to host a variable number of vertical domains that require specific data and dedicated analysis tools. Being also a part of an EURAC Research project, the PhD candidate will spend at least 6 months at this research institute. The PhDs daily activities will be supervised by the main tutor (prof. Patrizia Lombardi) with the contribution of the full environment of the laboratory and in particular of Dr. Sara Torabi Moghadam (Polito) and Dr. Adriano Bisello (EURAC).