Caterina CAROCCI

Caterina F. Carocci, architect and Ph.D. in History of Building Sciences and Techniques, has been a full professor of Restoration (ICAR/19) since 2020 at the University of Catania, where she carries out teaching activities in her disciplinary field, has been the supervisor of several dissertations and tutor of some doctoral theses. Her research activity is dedicated to the topic of conservation of historical masonry architecture.  She is a member of the teaching board of the PhD program in Urban and Territorial Risk Assessment and Mitigation at the University of Catania. He has been in charge of Erasmus and internationalization for the Special Teaching Structure of Architecture in Syracuse since 2012.With particular passion, he deals with the study of building fabrics and houses. Central to his approach is the analysis of the processes of implantation, evolution and transformation of the built historicali, as an essential moment of a methodology aimed on the one hand at the identification of weaknesses in the built environment and on the other hand at the definition of measures for intervention and protection. She has been the leader of numerous working groups and served as a scientific leader in numerous national and international research projects. From 2011 to 2014, she was in charge of the research group for the “Implementation of activities related to the post-earthquake reconstruction of April 6, 2009 and support to the elaboration of the Reconstruction Plan,” which is the subject of two Agreements between the Department of Architecture of the University of Catania and the municipalities of Villa Sant'Angelo and Fossa (AQ). Engaged since 2004 in the national research promoted by the ReLUIS Consortium on seismic risk prevention, she is part of the researchers engaged in post-seismic emergency activities with reference to damage survey. She is currently carrying out a study on Poggioreale (Trapani) abandoned after the earthquake of 1968 with the aim of securing the sites to allow their use and enhancement.