Francesca Abastante

Associate Professor (L. 240)
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)

  • Member of Interdepartmental Center R3C - Responsible Risk Resilience Centre

Profile

Research interests

Analisi multicriteri
Architecture
Multicriteria decision analysis (mcda)
Strategic evaluation for decision making
Sustainable development
Urban planning

Biography

Francesca Abastante studies Architecture in Italy (PoliTO). In April 2013, she holds a Ph.D. in Regional and Urban Studies with the thesis named “The role of the Multicriteria Decision Analyses in decision processes for territorial transformation” after 3 years of research. She is currently Assistant Professor (RTDb) with the InterUniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) at the PoliTO. She is a research member of the department research project project QUICHE based on the assessment of SDG11 and of the European projects SCORE (2018/2021) and MOLOC (subcontractor 2018-2020). Moreover, she is an active member of the ERASMUS+ project LOTUS (2019-2022). Her present research focuses on studies related to Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and decision processes in territorial projects with the attention to environmental and social sustainability. Her skills are particularly related to the research aimed at integrating MCDA, financial analysis and visual tools to support real-time decision processes. She has been scientific responsible of different national projects as BIG/OPEN DATA AND SPATIAL ANALYTICS, CHIOMONTE 2025 and CHIOMONTE SMART as well as a research member of several European projects as CODE24 (2010-2013), DIMMER (2013-2017) and SHAPE ENERGY (2017/2019). Moreover, she has been an active co-operator of the “Housing Program” for the Compagnia di San Paolo (CSP - programmahousing.it) focusing on social and energy sustainability aspects with the aim of answering to the growing housing demand. She is co-author of numerous scientific papers.

Scientific branch

CEAR-03/C - Real Estate Appraisal and Project Evaluation
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)

Skills

ERC sectors

SH7_7 - Cities; urban, regional and rural studies
SH1_6 - Econometrics; operations research
SH7_10 - GIS, spatial analysis; big data in geographical studies
SH2_10 - Land use and regional planning
SH2_6 - Sustainability sciences, environment and resources
SH2_9 - Urban, regional and rural studies

SDG

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Goal 13: Climate action

Fellowships

Editorial boards

  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING (2021-), Editorial board member
  • SUSTAINABILITY (2020-2021), Guest Editor of magazine or editorial series
  • VALORI E VALUTAZIONI (2016-2021), Editorial board member

Conferences

  • 31thEURO2021 European conference on Operational Research (11/7/2021-14/7/2021), Co-organizzatore della sessione "Urban and Territorial Planning in MCDA"
  • Urbanpromo Green (CHIUDERE IL CERCHIO? Modelli di valutazione per una città realmente circolare) (18/9/2020-18/9/2020), Program committee
  • Urbanpromo Green (Modelli avanzati per la valutazione dei co-benefit associati a interventi di riqualificazione e conservazione dell’ambiente naturale e costruito), Program committee
  • 30thEURO2019 European conference on Operational Research (23/6/2019-26/6/2019), Co-organizzatore della sessione "Urban and Territorial Planning in MCDA"

Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico

  • Professore a contratto, presso Politecnico di MILANO (1/2/2018-31/7/2021)
  • Ricercatore, presso Compagnia Di San Paolo (15/9/2013-1/12/2016)
  • Ricercatore, presso SiTI - Istituto superiore sui sistemi territoriali per l'Innovazione (1/3/2013-15/9/2013)

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2022/2023 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
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Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

PhD

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Master of Science

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Bachelor of Science

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Research

Research projects

Projects funded by competitive calls

Projects funded by commercial contracts

Publications

Publications by type

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