Role
Associate Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
Bio
Simonetta Armondi studied at the Polytechnic University of Milan, where she earned a diploma from the School of Specialization in Regional Planning and a PhD. Throughout her academic career, she has held a research position at the same university and is currently an associate professor of Economic and Political Geography in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.
Her research focuses on the transformations of contemporary peripheral territories and the spatial implications of production, logistics, and infrastructure, analyzing their critical aspects, gaps, and opportunities. She coordinated the Politecnico di Milano unit in the PRIN 2022 project “New Italian Geographies of Logistics” and has gained significant international research experience, including at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris (2023). In 2025, she won the SOM Foundation European Research Prize (with A. Kërçuku) for the research entitled "Disrupting the Corridor: Water/Ground Mobilities Across the Adriatic." She combines her research with intense teaching activity in undergraduate and graduate programs and is the author of numerous scientific publications, including, in 2025, "Geographies of Crises. Data, Logistics and Urbanization of the World" and, in 2026, "Critical Spatial Thinking and Extreme Events. Tools for Multiple Disciplines" (with G. Pessina).