Role
Associate Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the University of Padua and President of the international and interdisciplinary master's degree program in Local Development
Bio
A PhD holder in European Urban and Local Studies (URBEUR) from the University of Milan-Bicocca, Chiara Rabbiosi completed postdoctoral research at the University of Bologna in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Studies on Tourism (CAST). Since 2019, she has been a researcher and then an associate professor at the Department of Historical, Geographical and Ancient Sciences at the University of Padua.
A member of the scientific committee of the Centre for Advanced Studies Mobility & Humanities (MoHu), she coordinates the Master's Degree in Local Development. Her research combines tourism geography with mobility studies, with a central focus on the role of bodies , gender , cultural Europeanization , and tourism practices .
Co-director of the Rivista Geografica Italiana and local unit coordinator for PRIN PNRR projects, she applies creative and transformative methodologies in geography research and teaching.