A Senior Researcher at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Northwestern Switzerland. She is an architect and urban planner, holding a Ph.D. and Postdoc in urban planning from Italy. Her research centers on contemporary urbanism issues, forced displacement in the Levant region, and the dynamics of city transformation during emergencies. She aims to comprehend the linkage between critical city transformations and historical changes in urban fabric post-crises. Mainly focuses on spatial planning in emergencies, including postwar and post-natural incident reconstructions, refugee camps, emergency management, and urban resilience. Her work deals with the rapidly changing and contested global environments, cities’ transformation processes, and spatial planning in emergencies. She is the coordinator of the International project "Camps and Camp-like Settings in Urban Environment: Bridging Humanitarian and Development Activities," funded by the Seiss Network for International Studies (SNIS). She worked on developing an integration concept with an urban eye, "Cooperation in the Leimental region in the area of asylum," in Switzerland. She is a member of Fachverband Schweizer Raumplaner (FSU), the Italian Society of Urban Planners Società Italiana degli Urbanisti (SIU), the scientific committee of the International Aid of the Luxembourg Red Cross (AICRL), and a Professional member of the American Planning Association (APA).