Emanuele Giordano is a teaching assistant at the Paris School of Urban Planning for the 2018/19 academic year.
After defending his thesis on the evolution of public lighting policies in November 2017, last year he was a research engineer at the Mediterranean Institute for Risk, Environment, and Sustainable Development.
His research interests include the development of lighting policies, the institutionalization of the urban night as an object of public action, and the roles of students and young employees in the socio-demographic transformation of central neighborhoods. In particular, he is interested in the relationships between the development of nightlife and urban transformation processes.
He is a member of the ANR Smartnight project team, which is investigating the impacts of student nightlife in the cities of Montpellier, Reims, Grenoble, and Lyon.