Anna Pagani

is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE), University College London (UCL). Her research encompasses the fields of people-environment studies, housing studies, and systems thinking She holds a PhD from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Architecture and Science of the City. Previously, she was trained in architecture and building engineering in the Polytechnic Universities of Turin, Milan (Alta Scuola Politecnica ASP), Barcelona (UPC), and Lausanne (EPFL) and she worked as an architect and researcher in Shanghai, China. After her PhD, she was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Laboratory on Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), and at the Habitat Research Center (HRC), joining the Executive board of the research field ‘Healthy Habitats’. In 2022, she obtained funding from SNSF to lead a project entitled ‘A just transition towards housing sustainability: where architecture and systems science meet’. The project uses systems thinking tools to address the cobenefits and (un)intended consequences of social housing regeneration in London, specifically for sustainability and health.