Giulia Urso

After earning a Master's degree in Languages for International Communication (Economics) from the University of Salento (2007) and a Master's Degree in Political Economy for International Tourism from Sciences Po/Université Toulouse 1 (2009), he earned a PhD in Historical, Geographical and International Relations Studies from the University of Salento in 2013, with a dissertation on the role of culture in endogenous development. He teaches and conducts research in economic geography and, in 2014, was a visiting professor at Ghent University.
Since 2015, she has worked at the Gran Sasso Science Institute: first as a postdoc, then as a researcher (RTDa and RTDb), and finally as an Associate Professor. At the university, she teaches Economic Geography in the doctoral program in Regional Science and Economic Geography, coordinating and participating in national and international research projects focused on peripheral areas, territorial cohesion, and local development.
Throughout her career, she has studied cultural enhancement strategies, public policies for inland areas, and issues related to territorial resilience in the face of economic shocks and disasters, most recently investigating territorial inequalities and protest voting. She is an editor for ANVUR scientific journals for Area 11 and the author of numerous internationally renowned publications.