Dr. Elisa Fiore is Assistant Professor of Urban Geography at the department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning. Working at the intersection of urban geography, gender studies, and sensory studies, she has specialised in the study of contemporary structures of social inequality and how they become spatialised through bodies and embodied practice. 

Fiore is currently researching the contentious spatiality of reproductive politics in Europe. Building on a Starting Grant, she leads a research project examining how the debate around abortion clinics buffer zones in the Netherlands materialises in public space, focusing on the scalar entanglements of gender, (urban) space, and morality. In June 2025, Fiore was awarded a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to advance a critical geography of abortion at home in the Netherlands and Italy. The project will investigate the social, cultural, and political implications of home becoming a legal space of abortion care, with particular attention to the unexpected power geometries that emerge from the intersection of reproductive and domestic hierarchies. 

Prior to joining Utrecht University, Fiore received her PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen with a research project investigating how the race-, gender-, and class-based exclusions brought forward through gentrification are experienced, constituted, and reproduced through embodiment and sensory attunement to place.