Caterina Di Giovanni holds a PhD in Urban Studies from ISCTE-IUL/FCSH-UNL. She is an architect from the University of Palermo, having also completed a postgraduate degree in Urban Planning in Public Administration, at the Sapienza University of Rome. Her doctoral research was funded through a Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) grant and focused on the theme of public housing in Portugal and Italy through an interdisciplinary approach between architecture and social sciences. During her PhD period, in 2019 she was a visiting student at the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Camerino. The same year, she won the AESOP Young Investigator Training Program research award, with a period as a visiting student at the Department of Architecture at the University of Roma Tre. In 2021 she won a scientific research award from ISCTE. In 2022 she joined the Erasmus + CliCCHE-Climate Change, Cities, Communities and Equity in Health project team (www.clicche.org). In 2023 she was hired as a junior researcher for the LOGO project - The LOcal GOvernance of housing policy. A study of municipal housing strategies (funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology; reference 2022.03719.PTDC). During the last few years, she has been invited to review scientific papers, as a lecturer in doctoral courses and international seminars, to organize and moderate conference panels, and as an arguer of master's theses. Finally, she won architecture awards as a team, and she had experience in teaching and co-supervisor in Italy and Portugal.