Davide Ponzini

Full Professor of Urban Planning and director of the Transnational Architecture and Urbanism research unit

Matteo Poli

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture

Paolo Scrivano

Associate Professor of History of Architecture 

Stefano Di Vita

Researcher of Urban Planning

Zachary Jones

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor 

Anita Martinelli

PhD Student

Huilei Cao

PhD Candidate

Abdallah Jreij

PhD Candidate

Siyuan Li

PhD Candidate

Xiaoxuan Du

Visiting PhD Student – Harbin Institute of Technology

Interns

The many research activities of TAU-Lab required systematic internship of BSc and MSc students of the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Construction Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. TAU-Lab welcomes applications from Politecnico di Milano students and from other institutions as well!

Past and Current Interns

Hale Alp, Elena Bianchi, Cristina Brambilla, Ines Buetow (University of Oxford), Christan Buurstee, Celeste Calzolari, Pietro Cerri, Marco Chironi, Chiara Cicchianni, Anita De Franco, Marco Di Martino, Eleftheria Exarchou, Stefan Fotev, Aleksandar Georgiev, Soroush Ghiasi, Francesca Ghiselli, Anthony Griffits, Diana Hodulikova (Brno University of Technology), Sahar Hosseini, Soyoung Kim, Anna Kravtsova, Filippo Lafleur, Kellen Magarini, Elad Mattri, Lucas Lorenzo Mattana, Francesca Mavaracchio, Liana Mandradzhieva, Pietro Rovelli, Alexander Tsiatinis, Apollonios Tsiatinis, He Yuan, Maria Wandiba, and others.

Network and Visiting Researchers

  • Nadia Alaily-Mattar – Research Associate, Technical University of Munich
  • Burçin Başyazıcı – Assistant Professor, Yeditepe University – Visiting Researcher at Politecnico in 2020
  • Maria Gravari-Barbas – Professor of Geography, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
  • Laura Lieto – Professor of Urban Planning, Università di Napoli Federico II
  • Harvey Molotch – Professor of Sociology Emeritus, New York University and UC Santa Barbara
  • Michele Nastasi – PhD, photographer and independent researcher
  • Eleonora Redaelli – Associate Professor, University of Oregon  – Visiting Scholar at Politecnico in 2020
  • Sampo Ruoppila – University of Turku – Visiting Scholar at Politecnico in 2016
  • Alain Thierstein – Professor of Urban Development, Technical University of Munich
  • Yiqing Zhao – Assistant Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University
  • Xiaoxuan Du – PhD Student, Harbin Institute of Technology – Visiting PhD Fellow at Politecnico in 2023-2024