Maria Cerreta is Associate Professor at CNR-IRISS since 2019.

Architect, PhD in “Evaluation Methods for the Integrated Conservation of Architecture, Urban and Environmental Heritage”, she is full professor of Environmental Assessment and Evaluation (SSD ICAR/22) at the Department of Architecture (DiARC), University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy, Coordinator of the Second Level Master in “Planning and Sustainable Design of the Port Areas” and Director of the Advanced Course in “Real Estate Market and Urban Regeneration (MIRU)”.

She carries out research in the fields of appraisal and multidimensional evaluations in hybrid, collaborative and interactive decision-making contexts, typical of urban planning and territorial planning, developing Adaptive Decision Support Systems for the enhancement of cultural heritage and landscape, for urban regeneration and spatial transformations, also with the aid of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), integrating methods and tools specific to economic, multi-criteria and multi-group evaluations.

She was the scientific coordinator and member of research groups of projects, agreements and national and international research conventions, and is currently involved in the European Horizon 2020 project “REsource Management in Peri-urban Areas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism” (REPAiR), coordinated from TUDelft.

Invited speaker at national and international conferences, and at Italian and foreign universities, she is a member of the International Scientific Committee on the Economics of Conservation ISCEC-ICOMOS and member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Urban Planning (INU) Campania section.

She is Co-Director of the “BDC” journal (eISSN 2284-4732, Class A journal for the ASN), member of the Editorial Committee of the journal “Aestimum” (eISSN 1724-2118, Scopus indexed journal), member of the Scientific Committee of TRIA journal (ISSN 2281-4574, Class A journal for the ASN), and member of the Scientific Committee of the “Housing Policies and Urban Economics” journal (HoPUE) (eISSN 2282-0671).