Expert in urban planning. Has served as scientific advisor to national bodies such as the Italian Prime Minister’s Office (Casa Italia) and the Ministry of Infrastructure. She has worked on urban regeneration and strategic planning in conflict-affected contexts. Her international cooperation projects in Lebanon, Palestine, Senegal and Benin have focused on participatory planning to support spatial resilience and institutional strengthening. De Leo, D., & Calabrese, V. V. (2024). Spatial inequalities and international cooperation projects: a bottom-up wellbeing model for inclusion. In Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing. Edward Elgar Publishing. De Leo, D., & Altamore, S. (2023). Why multi-stakeholder practices don’t work: looking beyond the extent and diversity of actors for co-producing collective action; a case study from an inner area in Italy. Planning Practice & Research, 38(3)
Full Professor in Transport Planning, expert in urban accessibility, mobility justice, and participatory planning. She has an extensive international research experience and has an active role in academic and professional international networks, among others the AESOP, the Transport Planning Society TPS, the AET Association of European Transport. Teixeira, J. F., Silva, C., Seisenberger, S., Büttner, B., McCormick, B., Papa, E., & Cao, M. (2024). Classifying 15-minute Cities: A review of worldwide practices. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 189, 104234. Smeds, E., & Papa, E. (2023). The value of street experiments for mobility and public life: Citizens’ perspectives from three European cities. Journal Urban Mobility 4: 100055. Papa, E (2020) Using accessibility metrics and tools to deliver sustainable mobility In Handbook of Sustainable Transport, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Associate Professor in Spatial Planning and leader of SUSMOB, HVL's research group on sustainable mobility. She is an expert in participatory planning, co-creation and mobility justice. Key publications: Hidayati, I., & Tan, W. (2025). Assessing justice in sustainable mobility transitions: narratives from transport policies in Jakarta. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 1-13. von Schönfeld & Tan, W. (2021) "Endurance and implementation in small-scale bottom-up initiatives" in Cities. Von Schönfeld, K. C., Tan, W., Curtis, C., & Visser, J. F. (2020). Every-day mobility anecdotes: Addressing the blind spot of goal- and expert-oriented mobility research. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 7, 100169.
Before founding Systemica in 2022, Gennaro worked in Belgium as Senior Business Analyst Consultant at Almaviva de Belgique (2019-2022) and Senior Geovisualization Consultant at Orina Belgium (2018-2019), and in Italy as GIS Business Analyst for Almaviva Digitaltec (2017-2018). Before moving to industry, Gennaro worked as Researcher in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II (2012-2017) and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Human Geography of the Complutense University of Madrid (2015). Gennaro holds a Ph.D. in Civil System Engineering (2016) with a specialization in accessibility analysis and Geographic Information Systems, and he is a Guest Lecture in Data Driven Territorial Governance at the Federico II University of Naples. Angiello,
Laura Lieto is Vice Mayor of Naples and Full Professor of Urban Planning at the DiArc, University of Naples Federico II. A distinguished planning theorist and urban ethnographer, her research investigates urban informality, transnational urbanism, and planning regulation through a socio-materialist lens, drawing on Actor-Network Theory and assemblage thinking. She is Principal Investigator in several major national and European research projects, including PUSH (HERA) and Short-term City (MIUR). Lieto L. (2021), “Normative Ecologies of Planning: Understanding Norms in Action”, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 1 -11.
Research fellow at DiARC in transitions in the Global South. She worked at the Nairobi Metropolitan Services Improvement Project (NAMSIP), Kenya Municipal Program (KMP). Jimmy, E. N., & Lombard, M. (2024). Entangled rationalities: Planning responses to informal housing practices within middle-income neighbourhoods in Nairobi City, Kenya. Planning Theory & Practice. Current research projects: Inhabiting the Transition (AbiT) & Time Space Existence 2025: Repair, Regenerate, Reuse by European cultural center in Italy.
Research Fellow at DiARC, working on the research projects AbiT – InhAbiting the Transition in Urban Planning, PRIN Mapping the New Spatial Inequalities Within Southern European Cities, and SeDe – Segregation Patterns / Deprivation Areas. She also contributes to Gérer le vide urbain en contexte de financiarisation. Paris, Naples, regards croisés, Erasmus+ BASICC – Building Alternative Skills to Implement Creativities and Commons, and PRIN Short-Term City. Digital Platforms and Spatial Justice. She holds a PhD in Architecture and Urban Planning and Master in Environmental Humanities (Roma Tre) and Gendered Cities (University of Florence).
Is senior research fellow specialising in grassroots movements, participatory urban planning, urban experimentation and child-friendly urban mobility. She is a post-doc researcher and worked on the implementation of participation principles for street transformations in the project Ex-TRA and JUST STREETS. She also has experience in knowledge exchange and capacity building, having worked on the project ACUTE. Verdini, G., Woltjer, J., & Cioboata, S. (2025). Localising and reimagining urban planning knowledge for effective Global South climate urbanism. Planning Practice & Research, 1-21.
Architect involved in urban regeneration projects, currently pursuing a Master's degree in Adaptive Reuse of Heritage Making
Expert in developing interventions to align multidisciplinary project partners, as well as bridging the gap between implementation and policy.
Expert in creating Healthy Streets and School Streets through community and business co-design processes.
Specialises in school streets, air quality improvements, and active travel interventions.
Specialises in community engagement, digital communications, and social media channels, maximising reach and impact.