Francesca Ciampa is an Architect, Ph.D. in Sustainable Technology, Regeneration and Representation of Architecture and the Environment, and Master Expert in the Maintenance and Sustainable Regeneration of the Built Environment. She is abilitate as Associate Professor in Italy. She is also Subject Expert in Architectural Technology (ICAR/12), Lecturer of Master's degree program in Architecture & Heritage at the University of Naples Federico II, holder of the course Design studio for Architectural Heritage - technological design for Architecture module - Academic year 2024/2025; and Research Fellow in Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society,  for Historical Landscapes, Traditions and Cultural Identities in the section of “Innovative maintenance for the enhancement of Archaeological Heritage in the Campi Flegrei” at the Department of Architecture (DiARC) at the University of Naples Federico II. She carried out research abroad at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University, investigating the integration between technological innovation and vulnerable settlements; and at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of University of Bath in the United Kingdom, experimenting, prototyping and testing innovative biocomponents for the design of building elements in the landscape and built environment renovation processes. Winner of the “Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners 2024” grant by the British Academy fund with the selected project proposal “AREE_Adapting, re-using and enhancing the European rural heritage buildings: new technological solutions with rooted local materials”. A three-time winner of the COST European Cooperation in Science & Technology. She also wins, as a project manager, the “Horizon 2020 Public Consultation for the collection of proposals for the adaptive reuse of buildings in a perspective of circular economy”. She ranked as a finalist with the ExtrArtis project both at the “Horizon CLIC Startup competition on circular models of cultural heritage reuse and creative enterprise development” and at the “Association of Women Inventors and Innovators Award”.

Research Interest: Creative regeneration process based on the engagement of stakeholders and communities involvement; and innovative renovation building for

the integration of bio-component technologies