Prof. Romano Fistola

Graduated (with honor) in Architecture from the University of Naples "Federico II". He is nowadays a Full Professor (Town and Country Planning) at the Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering of the University of Naples "Federico II". He was an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering of the University of Sannio since 2004. He was also a permanent researcher at the Institute of Planning and Land Management of the National Research Council of Italy (Naples) from 1996 to 2003 and member of the Scientific Committee. He was also a visiting researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), under the direction of Prof. J.B. Goddard. Since 2004 he has been teaching the courses “Town and Country Planning” and the course of “Management of the Urban Transformations” at the Department of Engineering of the University of Sannio. He was a coordinator and member of research teams in several research projects (national and international) in the field of urban and regional planning. The main scientific topics of his research are as follows: New technologies and the city, smart cities, complex urban systems, GIS, urban risk, and sustainable cities. He is the author of more than 140 papers published in national and international books and journals.