Sara Torabi Moghadam

• Dr. Sara Torabi Moghadam (f) earned her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development (2018) at the Politecnico di Torino. She is an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino (DIST) with a demonstrated history of +8 years in the field of “Sustainable and Smart Cities” being involved in several national and European projects, e.g., DIMMER-FP7-ICT; SCORE-H2020; MOLOC-INTERREG EUROPE, and CESABMED-INTERREG MED. In her career, she has supported both public administration and private sector entities aiding them in achieving SDGs. She carried out a “Meriton Fellowship” at the Western University of Sydney (WSU) and a research and teaching visit at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), University of Salford and University di Amsterdam (UvA). Her research deals with co-design thinking sustainable and circular urban planning, NBS socio-economic impacts, KPIs impact assessment, and evaluation through participatory approaches. Her expertise focuses on Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System (MC-SDSS), which intends to facilitate the participatory decisional process for stakeholders who can ask “what-if” questions and visualize “if-then” scenarios in real time. She is the author of several international scientific articles.

Settori ERC

SDG

• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2025/2026 (41. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO
• URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
  Politecnico di TORINO

• Collegio di Architettura e Design. Componente invitato
• Collegio di Pianificazione e Progettazione. Componente

Dottorato di ricerca

• ESG trends: Shaping Sustainable Built Environment (insegnamento su invito). A.A. 2024/25, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Titolare del corso
• CO-DESIGNING FUTURE NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS THROUGH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY (didattica di eccellenza). A.A. 2022/23, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Titolare del corso

Corso di laurea magistrale

• Internship. A.A. 2025/26, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Titolare del corso
• Internship. A.A. 2025/26, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Titolare del corso
• Post-carbon sustainable communities (Atelier) (modulo di Evaluation methods and decision making approaches). A.A. 2025/26, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Titolare del corso
• Economic evaluation of projects. A.A. 2025/26, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Collaboratore del corso
• Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals. A.A. 2025/26, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Professional Training. A.A. 2024/25, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Titolare del corso
• Città, territorio, paesaggio (modulo di Estimo). A.A. 2024/25, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Collaboratore del corso
• Post-carbon sustainable communities (Atelier) (modulo di Evaluation methods and decision making approaches). A.A. 2024/25, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Titolare del corso
• Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals. A.A. 2024/25, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Professional Training. A.A. 2023/24, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Titolare del corso
• Post-carbon sustainable communities (Atelier) (modulo di Evaluation methods and decision making approaches). A.A. 2023/24, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Titolare del corso
• Città, territorio, paesaggio (modulo di Estimo). A.A. 2023/24, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Collaboratore del corso
• Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals. A.A. 2023/24, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals. A.A. 2022/23, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Post-carbon sustainable communities (Atelier) (modulo di Evaluation methods and decision making approaches). A.A. 2022/23, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Titolare del corso
• Città, territorio, paesaggio (modulo di Estimo). A.A. 2022/23, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Collaboratore del corso
• Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals. A.A. 2021/22, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals. A.A. 2020/21, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Decision Making for Sustainable Development Goals. A.A. 2019/20, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso

Progetti finanziati da bandi competitivi

• GREEN-INC - GRowing Effective & Equitable Nature-based Solutions through INClusive Climate Actions, (2024-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Ricerca UE - Driving Urban Transitions

Progetti finanziati da contratti commerciali

• CONVENZIONE PER IL COFINANZIAMENTO DELL’ATTIVITA’ DI RICERCA ATTRAVERSOL’ATTIVAZIONE DI UNA BORSA DI STUDIO PER IL DOTTORATO I N T E R A T E N E O DIRICERCA IN U R B A N A N D R E G I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T – s e c o n d as e s s i o n e (XXXIX CICLO), (2023-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Intese

• Dana Al Mamlouk. Corso in Urban And Regional Development (40^o ciclo, 2024-in corso)
• Saba Mirzahosseini Barough. Corso in Urban And Regional Development (40^o ciclo, 2024-in corso)
  Argomento della ricerca: Sviluppo e Valutazione di un Sistema di Supporto alle Decisioni Spaziali Partecipativo per la Pianificazione e il Monitoraggio delle Soluzioni Basate sulla Natura: Un Caso di Studio ClimaGen
  
  Climate change
  Sustainable land use and territorial resilience
  Risk prevention and management
  Geomatics
  Spatial planning
  Natural environment
  Landscape
  Water management
  Virtual and augmented reality for spatial development
  Climate change
  Sustainable land use and territorial resilience
  Risk prevention and management
  Geomatics
  Spatial planning
  Natural environment
  Landscape
  Water management
  Virtual and augmented reality for spatial development
• Neshat Rahmani. Corso in Urban And Regional Development (40^o ciclo, 2024-in corso)
• Belal Neazi. Corso in Urban And Regional Development (39^o ciclo, 2023-in corso)
• Virginia Pellerey. Corso in Urban And Regional Development (38^o ciclo, 2022-in corso)
• Maurizia Pignatelli. Corso in Urban And Regional Development (37^o ciclo, 2021-2025)
  Tesi: A Spatial Decision Support System for the Regeneration of Italian Villages (Borghi) and Marginal Areas
• Daniela Santana Tovar. Corso in Urban And Regional Development (37^o ciclo, 2022-in corso)
  Tesi: Definition of a standard ESG framework for construction and real estate companies
• Jhon Ricardo Escorcia Hernandez. Corso in Urban And Regional Development (36^o ciclo, 2020-2024)
  Tesi: A Digital Spatial Assessment Framework for Sustainable Social Housing in the Post-Pandemic Era - A Case Study of Bogotá, Colombia

• Biancifiori, Sara; Torabi Moghadam, Sara; Lombardi, Patrizia (2025)
  Participatory Digital Solutions for Nature-Based Solution Urban Projects: A Systematic PRISMA Literature Review. In: SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 17. ISSN 2071-1050
  Contributo su Rivista
• Escorcia Hernandez, Jhon Ricardo; Sharifi, Ayyoob; Torabi Moghadam, Sara; Lombardi, ... (2025)
  Spatial disaggregation of urban greenhouse gases emission scenarios: Empirical analysis based on an expanded Kaya identity. In: SUSTAINABLE FUTURES, vol. 10. ISSN 2666-1888
  Contributo su Rivista
• Biancifiori, Sara; Moghadam, Sara Torabi; Lombardi, Patrizia (2024)
  A Participatory Approach as a Preliminary Action for Urban Projects Based on Nature-Based Solutions. In: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems / S.N., S.L., Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 3-16. ISBN: 9783031746789
  Contributo in Volume
• Biancifiori, Sara; Yadav, Yogender; Boccardo, Piero; Zlatanova, Sisi; Torabi Moghadam, ... (2024)
  Evaluating the Potential of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and Solar Energy in Urban Built Environments with Aerial Photogrammetry Dataset. In: ISPRS TC IV Symposium 2024 Symposium on Spatial Information to Empower the Metaverse, Perth, Australia, 2024, pp. 65-72. ISSN 2194-9034
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Anselmo, Sebastiano; Safaeianpour, Ali; Moghadam, Sara Torabi; Ferrara, Maria (2024)
  GIS-based solar radiation modelling for photovoltaic potential in cities: A sensitivity analysis for the evaluation of output variability range. In: ENERGY REPORTS, vol. 12, pp. 4656-4669. ISSN 2352-4847
  Contributo su Rivista