She is currently an Assistant Professor at TU Delft, covering the roles of research coordinator of the doctoral program, coordinator of the International Office Committee, and member of the Faculty Studies Council for the landscape architecture section. She was an adjunct landscape architecture and landscape urbanism professor at Università Iuav di Venezia and Politecnico di Milano for over a decade. She also taught at the National University of Singapore, Venice International University, and Padova University. Since 2014, she has achieved the title of Italian Associate Professorship (ANVUR) and has been an EU Marie Curie researcher (assistant professor level) at the University of Trento. After working as an architect in London, Milan, and Padova, in 2008, Laura founded Superlandscape, an urban and landscape research firm.

Laura received a Ph.D. in Urbanism (landscape urbanism) in 2008 from Venice IUAV Ph.D. School, a Master’s degree (M.Des.) with distinction focused on landscape and urban studies from Harvard Design School in 2004 (attended with a grant), and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture with honors from Venice University IUAV in 2001.

Laura’s academic, didactic, and professional interests are in the interdisciplinary and interscalar nature of the landscape discipline. She is solidly committed to adopting site-specific and transdisciplinary ‘research through design’ methods. Her current research addresses climate change issues, starting from the materiality of ‘soil’ and ‘water’ and adopting (co)design approaches with living and non-living systems. In the past, she mainly dealt with airports and industrial landscapes concerning climate change and ecological issues.

Winner of numerous research fellowships, Laura was recently awarded the prestigious Comenius grant in 2023, the most important award for pedagogical innovations in the Netherlands. In 2011, she received the Marie Curie Cofund Fellowship within the European Union Seventh Framework Programme, one of the most prestigious research grants at the EU level. In 2002, Laura was awarded the Foundation CARIVE fellowship in collaboration with Venice University IUAV, which allowed her to graduate with honors in landscape and urban studies at Harvard Design School.

Laura represents TU Delft at UNISCAPE and is a member of the executive board of UNISCAPE.