Projects
Current
STEPS (Sustainable Tourism: Evolving Paradigms)
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) | 2025–present
Work Package 01 Lead: applying NLP and machine learning to analyze policy shifts in sustainable tourism across tropical coastal destinations. Investigating how countries are reimagining tourism post-pandemic through the lens of ecosystem protection.
I developed the Tourism Ecosystem Protection Index (TEPI), an NLP-based measure that assesses how tourism policies articulate ecosystem protection. Early results suggest that tourism policy attention to ecosystems may be driven more by disaster experience than by hazard awareness.
Completed
SEA-LIMITHS (Sea Level Rise Impacts on Italian Hospitality)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & CMCC Foundation | 2023–2025
Led an interdisciplinary project on the economic impacts of sea-level rise on Italy’s coastal hospitality sector. Built a georeferenced database of 10,000+ coastal establishments integrating remote sensing, AI classification, and economic data. Applied spatial analysis, machine learning, and CGE modeling for vulnerability and adaptation cost estimation.
European Commission Grant No. 101106544.
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