Federico Martellozzo

I am a committed GIS and spatial analysis researcher to sustainable and equitable development issues.

My research interests fall within the broad field of environmental humanities and could be characterized as Socio-Ecological Systems Dynamics. I focus on the study of the human/environment interaction over space and time, particularly in regards of the complex global environmental change. In particular, my academic activities are primarily driven by questions regarding how to adapt modern human development life-style to more sustainable paradigms, in order to preserve Earth’s resilience while supporting equitable and sustainable human development.

I have a consolidated international research experience. So far I have explored different frameworks of investigation, trying not to be confined into one specific discipline, rather favoring an interdisciplinary approach and a critical perspective. I strongly believe that social and natural sciences shall work together with policy makers, public stakeholders and NGO’s, to design equitable, sustainable and resilient development practices, in order to address the complex social-environmental challenges of the Anthropocene.

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I obtained a PhD in Economic Geography from the University of Trieste in 2010.

Since 2017 I am affiliated to the Dept. of Economics and Management at the University of Florence, where my role is Ass. Professor in Economic Geography. Currently i am also a Research Associate in Local Development at ARCO Lab.

Between 2014 and 2017 i was affiliated as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the university of Rome "La Sapienza".

In 2013 I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the LABEX Futurs Urbains laboratory at Paris-Est University (France).

In 2010, I was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Bureau for International Exchange (CBIE) and Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT). Thus, I joined the Land Use and the Global Environment (LUGE) research laboratory, led by Prof. Navin Ramankutty, at the Geography Dept. - McGill University (Canada).

In 2009 during my PhD, at the University of Trieste (co-supervised by G. Battisti and K. C. Clarke), I spent one year as a Visiting Fellow at the University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB).

For my Master Thesis, I investigated socio-economic and environmental impacts of oil exploitation in a small region in central Africa (southern Chad).

The research toolset I have used includes socio-economic theory, GIS, advanced spatial modeling, statistical analysis of surveys and ancillary data, social network analysis, remote sensing, text analyses and GPS data collection. Furthermore, I am familiar with several software for conventional cartography and GIS.

My interest in socio-environmental sustainability is not limited to research, but I am proactive also for what concerns its dissemination. I was on the Organizing Committee of the Sustainability Research Symposium at McGill 2012. This successful event’s scope is to stimulate public debate and promote scientific collaboration on and off campus dealing with sustainable development and resilience.