Francesca Cellina

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Francesca Cellina

Department of Environment Constructions and Design

  • Ricercatrice senior e Responsabile Sostenibilità e società, Istituto sostenibilità applicata all'ambiente costruito, Ricerca e innovazione

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Department of Environment Constructions and Design
Via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15
CH-6850 Mendrisio

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Francesca Cellina was born in Varese in November 1976. She has two children who are now growing up, loves to travel with her folding bicycle and to give new life to objects and furniture from the past.
In Summer 2001 she graduated in "Environmental and land planning engineering" at Politecnico di Milano (specialisation in Land Planning and Management).
In Spring 2023 she obtained a PhD in "Analysis of Social and Economic Processes" from the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano Bicocca. In her doctoral thesis, she studied app-based digital technologies and assessed their capability to stimulate long-term energy sufficiency in household consumption and support the energy and climate transition.
2001: Department of Electronics and Information - Politecnico di Milano (prof. Soncini-Sessa): integrated and participatory modeling, planning of water resources.
2002: Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment (ARPA) Lombardia.
2003-2007: Consorzio Poliedra Politecnico di Milano (prof. Laniado): land planning, Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), decision support systems (DSS);
2008-2009: Municipality of Varese: land planning:
2009-Today: SUPSI-DACD-ISAAC: social aspects of the energy transition, change of behaviours and social practices, participatory processes.
Methodological skills:
- systemic and trans-disciplinary approach;
- organisation and management of participatory processes (living lab, design thinking, multi-criteria analysis);
- quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods social research.

Application domains:
- decarbonisation and climate change mitigation;
- sustainable mobility at the local level (reduction of car use) and over long-distances (reduction of plane use);
- energy saving in households, schools, offices;
- changes in individual behaviours and collective social practices.

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