Role
Associate Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the University of Catania; co-founder of We-WISER
Bio
Teresa Graziano graduated with honors in European Languages and Cultures from the University of Catania and completed her PhD in Geography and a PhD in Territory and Landscape Sciences. She is an associate professor of Economic and Political Geography at the same university. She has conducted research at various institutions abroad, including Royal Holloway, University of London, the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University, the University of Barcelona, and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, where she served as Associate Research Director.
Active in research networks in Italy and abroad, her research focuses on urban geography, tourism, and the digital world, analyzing phenomena such as gentrification , overtourism , and touristification . She has also studied inland areas , smart cities , and new technologies for territorial innovation.
Principal Investigator of national (PRIN) and international projects, she is the Regional Trustee for Sicily of the Italian Geographical Society, which, in 2016, awarded her the prize for young scholars.