AWARDS

2021 John Connell Soundscape Award, Winner.
2019 Prix BLOXHUB Interactive, Category: Excellence, Honorary mention. Theme: “Making Urban Space More Liveable Using Digital Technology”.
2016 Falling Walls Young Innovator of the Year 2016 Award, Finalist.
2012 Research Award Città di Firenze (City of Florence): Best Dissertation in Urbanism to be published as a monograph with the Publisher Firenze University Press.
2010 Italian National Institute of Urbanism (INU) Best Italian Dissertation in Territorial Planning Award.

2020-2018. HEAD-Genuit Foundation Research Grant, research project: “Hush City Mobile Lab”
(201.863,20 €).
2016-2018. Marie Curie Fellowship (TU Berlin /Marie Curie-Ipodi Program), research project: “Beyond the Noise: Open Source Soundscapes” (135.000 €).
2018 American Society of Acoustics Travel Grant.
2017 American Society of Acoustics Travel Grant.
2017 HEAD-Genuit Foundation Travel Grant
2016 TU Berlin Career Development Grant, research project: Hush City (800 €).
2007-2008 Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, one-year doctoral research expedition at the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, USA (26.000 €).
2006-2009 Italian Ministry of Research Scholarship for attending the School of Doctorate, Faculty of Architecture, University of Firenze, Florence, Italy (approx. 28.800 €).

My scientific research outputs informed/were cited in the following documents released by national and international organisations:

European Commission staff working document (2020). Best Practices in Citizen Science for Environmental Monitoring.
Ponti & Craglia (2020). Citizen-generated data for public policy. European Commission Joint Research Centre Technical Report. EC ISPRA, Italy.
Grant, M. (2020). Integrating health in urban and territorial planning: a sourcebook. WHO/UN-Habitat Publisher.
Berliner Senate (2020). Lärmaktionsplan Berlin 2019-2023. Senatsverwaltung für Umwelt, Verkehr und Klimaschutz Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Berlin.
The Municipality of Berlin (2018) and Limerick City Council (2020-2021) adopted the Hush City app for the creation of the Quiet Areas Plans, within the context of the respective Noise Action Plans.

Press and media coverage in international high-level outlets. Inter alia: BBC Future, World Economic Forum, The Atlantic, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Citylab, NewCities, URBACT, Der Spiegel, Kulturradio rbb, Deutsche Welle International.

2010 – Present