Riccardo Maria Pulselli, Architect and PhD at the University of Siena (Italy), Department of Chemical and Biosystems Sciences.

In 2000, he graduated from the University of Rome III (Italy) with a degree thesis on New Technologies for the Renewal of Condemned Buildings, after a period at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona (Spain).

In 2005, he earned his PhD degree from the University of Siena in the area of Chemical Sciences with a thesis entitled: Urban Systems Dynamics: a Physical and Environmental Chemistry-based Approach.

Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Siena (Italy).

Since 2001, when he moved to Siena to join the research group directed by Prof. Enzo Tiezzi (Professor of Physical Chemistry), his research has focused on the application of environmental accounting methods to urban studies. The theories of evolutionary physics and thermodynamics are applied to regions in order to generate new geographies of human consumptions and manage resource exploitation and energy dissipation in urban contexts. Flows of energy that supply urban systems, as well as urban metabolism, are the subjects under investigation.

In recent years, he has worked on projects in partnership with local governments in Italy for the appraisal of local environmental sustainability and the management of resources and natural capital. Methods based on the eMergy synthesis (H. Odum, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL), the Ecological Footprint (M. Wackernagel and W. Rees, Global Footprint Network, Auckland, CA), the Greenhouse Gas Inventory (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change IPCC), and other indicators, are applied to regional studies. In 2003, he worked on the Strategic Environmental Assessment (Directive 2001/42/EC) of the Master Plan of Ravenna, in Italy. He is external adviser of the Center for Autonomous Sustainable Architecture (C.A.S.A. Laboratory, Bergamo, Italy).

In 2004, he was visiting researcher at the MIT SENSEable City Laboratory working on the Mobile Landscapes project: dynamic patterns of urban mobility are visualized (in the form of sequences of maps, or even mobile geographies) through processing location-based data from cell phones.

Since 2002, his studies have focussed on topics such as: sustainable city, design and nature, ecosystems theory, complexity and built environment, eco-architecture, environmental management, mobile landscapes, mobile geographies, evolutionary physics, chaos theory, dissipative structures and complex self-adaptive systems. He is collaborating with the editorial staff of the International Journal of Ecodynamics (WITpress, Southampton, UK - http://journals.witpress.com/pages/eco/default.html).