Francesca Ciampa is an Architect, Ph.D, Research Fellow, and Lecturer at the Department of Architecture at the University of Naples "Federico II". Ciampa has conducted research at Columbia University (2017 and 2018–2019), investigating the integrability between technological innovation and settlement vulnerability. She was trained in the Circular Economy for a Sustainable Built Environment at Delft University of Technology and in Iterative Innovation Processes at MIT. Ciampa is a three-time winner of the COST European Cooperation in Science & Technology Grant (2020 and 2021) and a finalist in the two "Horizon 2020 - CLIC Project" competitions on circular models of cultural heritage reuse and creative enterprise development. Since 2020, she has been a Subject Tutor in Architectural Technology (ICAR/12). She achieved a Master's level II master's degree in "Sustainable Maintenance and Redevelopment of the Built Environment".