The Advisory Board

It is consulted – as matter of principle – at the end of every year, for a qualitative assessment of the PhD Programme, for an independent assessment of the results of the Candidates of each cycle, and to receive suggestions for the improvement of its relationship with the society. The following highly referenced experts are the members of the ABC-PhD Advisory Board

• Teresa BAGNOLI is gradauted in Scienze Politiche Internazionali, specialized in Industrial Policy and local deverlopment @LSE and Project Management (1995). She is managing director of the area Building and Constructions Strategic Development of ASTER and Coordinator of the Emilia-Romagna ‘s Construction Platform of High Technology Network, with a long experience of project manager of R&D projects in different areas.
• Alessandra FAGGIAN is Professor of Applied Economics, Director of Social Sciences and Vice Provost for Research at the international PhD school Gran Sasso Science Institute", L'Aquila, Italy. Moss Madden Memorial Medal (2007) and Geoffrey Hewings Award (2015) she is also President of the North American Regional Science Council" (NARSC) and co-editor of the journal Papers in Regional Science with Roberta Capello. In a recent ranking of the top 100 regional scientists in the world (Rickman and Winters, 2016), she was ranked 19th.
• Mary MCNAMARA, fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an active researcher in the development of novel drug delivery systems, is Head of the Graduate Research School at Dublin Institute of Technology (the largest provider of higher education in Ireland) and former member (2012-2018) of the steering committee of the Council of Doctoral Education of the European Universities Association (EUA CDE). She is also member of the Irish National Forum on Research Integrity and of the National Advisory Forum for Ireland's National Framework for Doctoral Education.
• Catherine MAUMI, Architect, Doctor (EHESS), HDR (Paris 8) is full Professor (tenure) of History and theories of architecture and urban forms at the Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture of Grenoble. She is the scientific director of the "Laboratoire de recherche Les Métiers de l'Histoire de l'Architecture, édifices-villes-territoires" (MHAevt) and Doctoral supervisor of the Doctoral School 454: Sciences de l'Homme, du Politique, du territoire, University Grenoble Alpes.

• Agnes WEILANDT (MSc in structural engineering @RWTH Aachen and PhD at the Technical University Stuttgart) is project manager at Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure since March 2006, involved in many national and international projects, and Professor for structural analysis and construction engineering at the University of Applied Science in Frankfurt, since 2010.
  Before and also during her time at the Technical University Stuttgart, Agnes Weilandt worked with Werner Sobek Ingenieure in Stuttgart.