Jeannette Sordi is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the University of Genoa (2013-2014); and has been DAAD Visiting Research Fellow at Leibniz Universität Hannover (2014) and PhD Special Student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2011-2012). Her research focuses on the investigation of recycling strategies for architecture, landscape, and urbanism, and on the development of planning instruments and devices based on landscape, ecology, and life cycle thinking. Since 2010, she has been teaching at the University of Genoa, participating in international conferences and workshops, and collaborating on applied research projects in Lecce (Italy), Munich, Hannover (Germany), and Zhaoqing (China). Currently, she is co-coordinating the Genoa Recycle Lab within the “Recycle Italy” research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (PRIN 2010-2011), with the objective of investigating the potential of adopting recycling strategies for urban planning and design.
