Professional focus

Urban Shrinkage, Green Economy, Energy and Environmental Planning

Scientific and professional career

Since 05/2020 PhD Researcher - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in RE-CITY ITN: Reviving shrinking cities project; Department "International Planning Systems" at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

05/2019 – 04/2020 PhD Researcher- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in RE-CITY ITN: Reviving shrinking cities project; Center for Administrative and Economic Sciences at University of Guadalajara

2016 – 2018 Master Arts in Socio-Environmental Studies at LatinAmerican Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Ecuador

2014 – 2015 Master of Engineering in Renewable Energies - Polytechnic University of Cartagena

2011 – 2013 Master of Arts in Sciences of International Cooperation and Development- University "La Sapienza" of Rome

2008 – 2011- Bachelor in Political Sciences International Relations- University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Other professional experience: project management, operations management, strategic planning, marketing and communications

Publications

Di Pietro, Simone. 2019. Elementos relevantes para el discurso del buen vivir en la sociedad prehispánica andina. Tesis de maestría, Flacso Ecuador. repositorio.flacsoandes.edu.ec/handle/10469/15746

August 2019. Di Pietro, S. Tello, Golte y Dussel: tres visiones sobre el desarrollo de un sustrato cultural común en los Andes. Chakiñan, Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, [S.l.], n. 8, p. 88-100, ago. 2019. ISSN 2550-6722. chakinan.unach.edu.ec/index.php/chakinan/article/view/310

July 2018. Di Pietro, S. (2018). Energía y buen vivir: alternativas de producción descentralizada de la energía. Vía Iuris, (Nº 24), pp. 1-29. revistas.libertadores.edu.co/index.php/ViaIuris/article/view/841/811

May 2018. Alarcón, Pedro/Rocha, Katherine/Di Pietro, Simone: Die Yasuní-ITT-Initiative zehn Jahre später. Entwicklung und Natur in Ecuador heute, PERIPHERIE, 1-2018, S. 55-73. doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v38i1.03

May 2017. Di Pietro, S. (2017). Acuerdo de París: ¿Nuevos compromisos con el desarrollo o nuevas oportunidades de negocios? Revista Cooperativismo & Desarrollo vol.25 n.111. DOI: doi.org/10.16925/co.v25i111.1874

Participation in conferences

June 2020. Scientific Conference "Energy communities for collective self-consumption: frameworks, practices and tools" organized by Universitè of Grenoble Alpes. Presentation of paper: "Energy-as a Common in Shrinking Cities Energy Transitions".

September 2019. 12th CITTA International Conference on Planning Research. Spatial Planning for Change. Presentation of paper: "Urban Green Innovation: public interest, territory democratization and institutional design".

May 2019. Seminar on Methodology Research and Practice, 24th may 2019, University of Guadalajara (MX), Centre for Administrative and Economic Studies, Master of International Business and Studies. Presentation of Research project: "Analysis of feasibility for the production of solar energy in the condominiums of the city of Guadalajara as a development strategy for shrinking cities".