Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development

Resilience - Innovation - Sustainable Development Transparency – Organization – Meritocracy

Barbara Bertoli

Architect and PhD in the History of the City and Territory, she has been a Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) since 2019 and is currently affiliated with the Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development (IRISS).

From 2010 to 2025, first as a permanent Technologist and later as a permanent Researcher at the CNR, she carried out research activities aimed at promoting the dissemination, enhancement, knowledge, and protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage. She was initially affiliated with the Department of Cultural Heritage (DPC) and later with the Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), formerly the Institute of Agro-Environmental and Forest Biology (IBAF).

She is the scientific coordinator of the IRET-CNR research laboratory “The Landscape in the Laboratory, which conducts research focused on developing studies, models, and integrated landscape analysis methodologies.

A scholar of  architectural and landscape history in the modern and contemporary ages, she has participated in several national research projects, attended numerous international conferences, and published several contributions on various topics, including: the environmental, architectural, and landscape features of historic cities and anthropized areas, with a particular focus on the Campania region), the study of human settlement patterns and transformations of coastal landscapes, historical gardens between knowledge and enhancement, methodologies for the understanding and promotion of cultural and natural heritage, and the influence of Pompeii and its imagery on diverse contexts and expressions of modern architecture.

She has also carried out teaching activities at the Department of Architecture (DiARC) of the University of Naples Federico II and collaborates with the Interdepartmental Research Center for Architectural and Environmental Heritage and Urban Planning (BAP).

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