Students

Cestaro Luca

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: luca.cestaro@polito.it

Antohi Eric

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: eric.antohi@polito.it
Tutors: Leonardo Ramondetti, Giancarlo Cotella

Ay Cemre Betul

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: cemre.ay@polito.it
Tutors: Giancarlo Cotella, Erblin Berisha

Bernardi Asia

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: asia.bernardi@polito.it
Tutors: Andrea Ajmar, Giandomenico Fubelli

Biondi Francesca

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: francesca.biondi@polito.it
Tutors: Marta Carla Bottero, Caterina Caprioli

Cannella Giorgio

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: giorgio.cannella@polito.it
Tutors: Marco Piras, Elena Belcore

Dabed Caceres Jorge Farah

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: farah.dabed@polito.it
Tutors: Leonardo Ramondetti, Giancarlo Cotella

De Domenico Agata Grazia

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: agata.dedomenico@polito.it
Tutors: Umberto Janin Rivolin Yoccoz, Carolina Giaimo

Demartis Andrea

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: andrea.demartis@polito.it
Tutors: Fabio Giulio Tonolo, Andrea Ajmar

Dong Jiaqi

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: jiaqi.dong@polito.it
Tutors: Marco Piras

Marchese Federico

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: federico.marchese@polito.it
Tutors: Leonardo Ramondetti, Giancarlo Cotella

Ravaioli Michele

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: michele.ravaioli@polito.it
Tutors: Giacomo Pettenati

Sanchez Valverde Albarello Sara

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: sara.sanchez@polito.it
Tutors: Loris Antonio Servillo

Semeraro Giuseppe

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: giuseppe.semeraro@polito.it
Tutors: Antonio Di Campli

Vecchiotti Alma

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: alma.vecchiotti@polito.it
Tutors: Loris Antonio Servillo, Maria Ferrara

Viotti Furio

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: furio.viotti@polito.it
Tutors: Lorenza Belinda Fontana

Wu Liangfeng

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: liangfeng.wu@polito.it
Tutors: Alessandro Pezzoli, Vito Frontuto

Zhang Qian

Ph.D. student, 41^st cycle (2025-2028)
Email: zhang.qian@polito.it
Tutors: Luca D'Acci

Leombruni Federica

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: federica.leombruni@polito.it
Tutors: Sara Bonini Baraldi, Matteo Robiglio

Pincegher Bruna

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: bruna.pincegher@polito.it
Tutors: Ombretta Caldarice, Nicola Tollin
Climate change Sustainable land use and territorial resilience Risk prevention and management Urban and regional governance Spatial planning

Stradiotto Elisa

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: elisa.stradiotto@polito.it
Tutors: Anna Osello, Francesca Maria Ugliotti

Zhou Xuan

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: xuan.zhou@polito.it
Tutors: Guglielmina Mutani, Francesca Parasecolo

Dourado Beloso Nicholas Alexandre

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: nicholas.beloso@polito.it
Tutors: Angioletta Voghera, Israa Hanafi Elsayed Hanafi Mahmoud, James Shoiti Miyamoto
Climate change Sustainable land use and territorial resilience Risk prevention and management Urban and regional governance

Nino Andrea

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: andrea.nino@polito.it
Tutors: Carolina Giaimo, Michele Grimaldi

Accogli Sabina

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: sabina.accogli@polito.it
Tutors: Anna Osello, Francesca Maria Ugliotti

Al Mamlouk Dana

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: dana.almamlouk@polito.it
Tutors: Sara Torabi Moghadam, Gianvito Urgese, Patrizia Lombardi

Battaglini Pietro

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: pietro.battaglini@polito.it
Tutors: Umberto Janin Rivolin Yoccoz, Francesco Chiodelli
Urban studies

Beltramo Matteo

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: matteo.beltramo@polito.it
Tutors: Francesco Chiodelli, Mara Ferreri

Corgnier Giulia

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: giulia.corgnier@polito.it
Tutors: Michele Lancione, Silvia Aru

Corona Elena

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: elena.corona@polito.it
Tutors: Maurizio Tiepolo, Alessandro Pezzoli, Fabio Giulio Tonolo

Farina Federico

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: federico_farina@polito.it
Tutors: Carolina Giaimo, Fabio Romeo

Mazzocchi Greta

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: greta.mazzocchi@polito.it
Tutors: Lorenza Belinda Fontana, Giovanni Bettini
Human, economic and political geography

Mirzahosseini Barough Saba

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: saba.mirzahosseini@polito.it
Tutors: Sara Torabi Moghadam, Stefano Pensa
Natural environment Climate change Sustainable land use and territorial resilience Risk prevention and management Geomatics Spatial planning Landscape Water management Virtual and augmented reality for spatial development

Obialero Marco

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: marco.obialero@polito.it
Tutors: Piero Boccardo, Marco Santangelo

Pezzotti Cristina

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: cristina.pezzotti@polito.it
Tutors: Giacomo Pettenati, Magda Bolzoni

Rahmani Neshat

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: neshat.rahmani@polito.it
Tutors: Sara Torabi Moghadam, Patrizia Lombardi

Ramello Luca

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: luca.ramello@polito.it
Tutors: Silvia Aru, Wael Garnaoui

Sacco Letizia

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: letizia.sacco@polito.it
Tutors: Sara Monaci, Silvia Barbero

Shaneh Aida

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: aida.shaneh@polito.it
Tutors: Elisabetta Vitale Brovarone, Giancarlo Cotella

Trey Cristina

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: cristina.trey@polito.it
Tutors: Fabrizio Di Mascio, Lorenzo Cicatiello

Wu Yue

Ph.D. student, 40^th cycle (2024-2027)
Email: yue.wu@polito.it
Tutors: Federica Larcher, Marco Devecchi

Dell'Oca Emanuele

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: emanuele.delloca@polito.it
Tutors: Marta Carla Bottero, Raffaello Vignali

Rehman Majeeb Ur

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: majeeb.rehman@polito.it
Tutors: Andrea Ajmar, Fabio Giulio Tonolo, Luca Staricco

Pejovic Anja

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: anja.pejovic@polito.it
Tutors: Riccardo Pollo, Luca Staricco

Randazzo Rosamaria

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: rosamaria.randazzo@polito.it
Tutors: Loris Antonio Servillo, Magda Bolzoni

Tatulli Francesca Angela Maria

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: francesca.tatulli@polito.it
Tutors: Alessandro Pezzoli, Francesca Silvia Rota

Ardito Irene

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: irene.ardito@polito.it
Tutors: Angioletta Voghera, Camilo Vladimir De Lima Amaral

Bai Yiwei

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: yiwei.bai@polito.it
Tutors: Cristina Pronello, Xiao Yiqiang

Barbieri Sebastiano

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: sebastiano.barbieri@polito.it
Tutors: Marta Carla Bottero, Marco Valle, Caterina Caprioli

Bataineh Ikram Ahmad Hajeras

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: ikram.bataineh@polito.it
Tutors: Carlo Salone, Andrea Pollio

Braun Sarah Elizabeth

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: sarah.braun@polito.it
Tutors: Patrizia Lombardi

Caputo Martina

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: martina.caputo@polito.it
Tutors: Grazia Brunetta, Giancarlo Cotella

Ciarleglio Caterina

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: caterina.ciarleglio@polito.it
Tutors: Francesca Governa, Michele Lancione

Cosentino Tommaso

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: tommaso.cosentino@polito.it
Tutors: Elisa Bignante, Mara Ferreri

Darbesio Sofia

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: sofia.darbesio@polito.it
Tutors: Rosa Rita Maria Tamborrino, Alessandro Ippoliti

Fontanet Garcia Neus

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: neus.fontanet@polito.it
Tutors: Piero Boccardo, Alessandra Cimadom

Guliyeva Sona

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: sona.guliyeva@polito.it
Tutors: Piero Boccardo, Andrea Ajmar

Ile Amelia Laura

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: amelia.ile@polito.it
Tutors: Egidio Dansero

Longhi Valeria

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: valeria.longhi@polito.it
Tutors: Andrea Maria Lingua, Filiberto Chiabrando

Mazzaro Alessio

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: alessio.mazzaro@polito.it
Tutors: Antonio Di Campli, Elisa Bignante, Paul Ramirez Jonas Jonas

Neazi Belal

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: belal.neazi@polito.it
Tutors: Sara Torabi Moghadam, Patrizia Lombardi, Adriano Bisello

Pantaloni Giulio Gabriele

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: giulio.pantaloni@polito.it
Tutors: Carolina Giaimo, Andrea Ajmar

Stankulova Alexandra

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: alexandra.stankulova@polito.it
Tutors: Luca Staricco, Riccardo Pollo

Vivenzio Piergiorgio

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: piergiorgio.vivenzio@polito.it
Tutors: Marco Santangelo, Giovanna Segre, Roberto Leombruni

Wolender Tymon

Ph.D. student, 39^th cycle (2023-2026)
Email: tymon.wolender@polito.it
Tutors: Loris Antonio Servillo, Daniel Julien Florentin
Climate change Urban and regional governance Spatial planning Built environment Water management

Zucco Michele

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: michele.zucco@polito.it
Tutors: Anna Osello, Matteo Del Giudice

Anselmo Sebastiano

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: sebastiano.anselmo@polito.it
Thesis: Developing Energy Layers in Urban Digital Twins: Aerial Acquisition Integration for Urban Building Energy Modelling. An application on the City of Turin
Tutors: Piero Boccardo, Stefano Paolo Corgnati, Maria Ferrara

Cazzola Ilaria

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: ilaria.cazzola@polito.it
Tutors: Angioletta Voghera, Grazia Brunetta

Aimo Niccolo

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: niccolo.aimo@polito.it
Thesis: Climate Change Response and the Reshaping of Urban Governance. Implementing Next Generation Europe in Genoa and Lisbon
Tutors: Fabrizio Di Mascio, Ekaterina Domorenok

Alsibai Hashem

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: hashem.alsibai@polito.it
Thesis: Post Carbon Cities and Renewable Energy Communities: Stacked Urban Energy Precincts for low-carbon pathways
Tutors: Egidio Dansero, Lavinia Chiara Tagliabue, Gilles Desthieux

Biolchini Elisa

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: elisa.biolchini@polito.it
Tutors: Riccardo Pollo, Giuseppe Mandrone

Chatzikonstantinou Ioanna

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: ioanna.chatzikonstantinou@polito.it
Tutors: Marco Santangelo, Elia Apostolopoulou

Ciarlantini Sara

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: sara.ciarlantini@polito.it
Thesis: Air Pollution Impact on Health and its Economic Consequences: from Atmospheric Analysis to Global Burden Estimation.
Tutors: Alessandro Pezzoli, Vito Frontuto, Claudio Alejandro Belis

Comino Jessica

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: jessica.comino@polito.it
Tutors: Piero Boccardo, Marco Santangelo

Del Fiore Marco

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: marco.delfiore@polito.it
Thesis: Institutional and Governance Innovation in Territorial Policies. Tackling the Experimentalist Challenges in European Fragile Territories.
Tutors: Loris Antonio Servillo, Abdel Illah Hamdouch
Cultural and social innovation Urban studies Human, economic and political geography Urban and regional governance Spatial planning

Di Bernardo Andrea

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: andrea.dibernardo@polito.it
Thesis: Uneven Ethnographies of Territorial development: SNAI and LEADER Experiences in the Northwestern Italian Alps
Tutors: Paolo Giaccaria, Valentina Porcellana Porcellana

Di Lucchio Caterina

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: caterina.dilucchio@polito.it
Tutors: Loris Antonio Servillo, Carlo Salone

Fedeli Enrico

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: enrico.fedeli@polito.it
Tutors: Cristina Pronello, Yves Crozet

Grasso Francesco

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: francesco.grasso@polito.it
Tutors: Sara Bonini Baraldi, Carlo Salone

Grelle Angelina

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: angelina.grelle@polito.it
Thesis: Political Reproduction, Urban Solidarity and Migrant Infrastructures. From Ararat to Rome and Beyond.
Tutors: Silvia Aru, Francesco Chiodelli

Leoni Sofia

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: sofia.leoni@polito.it
Thesis: The Rural Reinvention. Emerging Taobao Villages and the Infrastructural Modification of the Invisible China
Tutors: Antonio Di Campli, Michele Bonino, Niccolo' Cuppini
Urban studies Spatial planning Landscape

Licci Eva

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: eva.licci@polito.it
Tutors: Sara Bonini Baraldi, Sabrine Isber

Lu Qiurun

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: qiurun.lu@polito.it
Thesis: A three-dimensional approach for measuring TODness levels. An application to underground urban stations in Chengdu
Tutors: Luca Staricco, Andrea Ajmar

Massenz Giulia

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: giulia.massenz@polito.it
Tutors: Francesco Chiodelli, Maria Chiara Giorda

Pellerey Virginia

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: virginia.pellerey@polito.it
Tutors: Sara Torabi Moghadam, Giancarlo Cotella, Patrizia Lombardi

Sciuva Emanuele

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: emanuele.sciuva@polito.it
Thesis: Infrastructuring Silicon Valley Mimicry: Digital Nomadism, (Geo)Arbitrage, and the Making of Lisbon’s Nomadland
Tutors: Francesca Governa, Andrea Pollio, Sonia Sallazzaro Arbaci
Urban studies Human, economic and political geography

Shaker Yahya Yasser Mohamed

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: yahya.shaker@polito.it
Tutors: Giancarlo Cotella, Zora Zivanovic, John Moodie
Urban and regional governance Spatial planning

Traore Ammj

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: ammj.traore@polito.it
Tutors: Luca Staricco, Federico Cavallaro

Ventura Gianvito Marino

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: gianvito.ventura@polito.it
Thesis: Resilience Models for Large Hydropower Diversions Insights from Calcinere, Italy
Tutors: Anna Osello, Francesca Maria Ugliotti

Volpatti Marco

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: marco.volpatti@polito.it
Thesis: Integrated evaluation for supporting the new concept of urban sustainable districts and communities. A focus on Positive Energy Districts and Climate Positive Circular Communities
Tutors: Marta Carla Bottero, Adriano Bisello

Yadav Yogender

Ph.D. student, 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Email: yogender.yadav@polito.it
Tutors: Piero Boccardo, Sisi Zlatanova
Geomatics Spatial planning Landscape Built environment Renewable energy and energy transition

Capello Giorgio

Ph.D. student, 37^th cycle (2021-2024)
Email: giorgio.capello@polito.it
Thesis: Innovative soil management and technological integration to enhance sustainability and soil health in hilly vineyards of North-West Italy. Adopting good practices and advanced technologies for investigation of water-soil dynamics and mitigation of soil degradation in viticulture.
Tutors: Stefano Ferraris, Marcella Biddoccu