Beatrice Guardini is a PhD candidate in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, supervised by Prof. Niki Frantzeskaki and Prof. Katharina Hölscher. Her research explores how people form attachments to places, how nature influences these connections, and what these bonds signify for envisioning and governing urban spaces in sustainable ways.

She’s currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the SUNSET project (HORIZON-MSCA-DN), where she focuses on understanding and testing transformative learning approaches to nature governance in university towns. Before joining Utrecht University, she worked for a foundation in Northeast Italy, supporting community-led projects through capacity-building and co-design work. She also spent a short time as a research fellow at the University of Padova, collaborating with the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry on emerging Green Care initiatives.

Beatrice earned a Master’s in Sustainability Science (2023), an MSc in Environmental Psychology (2022), and a BSc in Landscape and Environmental Design and Planning (2019).