Leila Signorelli

PhD Architect, since 2020 Senior Assistant Professor in Architectural Conservation at University of Bologna (Department of Architecture). She obtained the PhD degree in 2014 at University of Bologna with a thesis on post-war reconstruction works of architect Josef Wiedemann in Munich. Her research field focuses on post-war reconstruction, Cultural Creative Industry applied to Cultural Heritage, preservation of 20th century architecture, especially the Heritage of totalitarian regime (Dissonant Heritage), problems of Conservation related to the Indoor Microclimate. She is a full member of SIRA-Società Italiana per il Restauro dell'Architettura and of Federacion Internacional CICOP-Centro Internacional para la Conservación del Patrimonio, of which she has been appointed General Secretary since September 2021. She is currently involved in the research groups of some national and international funded projects. She was technical advisor in the candidature for the UNESCO Venetian Fortress site (2012-2016), inscribed in the WHL in 2017. After a national selection, she was one of the winners as an architect at the Ministry of Culture, where she worked from 2018 to June 2020. Architect in chief and building manager at the museum Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, she dealt with the the preservation of the historical building and the setting up of temporary exhibitions as well.