The overall management and coordination of MEDiverSEAty is in charge of the Leading Partner (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy).

Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg

Coordinator | University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg
Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg is Professor of Geography at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy). She was a member of the Steering Committee of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography and is now, since 2016, Chair of the IGU Commission on the History of Geography. She is Deputy Director of the Marine Research and Higher Education Centre (MaRHE) in Faaf-Magoodhoo (Republic of Maldives). Her research interests include landscape and biodiversity conservation, hazard and resilience, cultural and gender geography, and the history of geographical thought. Her current research focuses on the culture and heritage of the Maldives. She has worked and published extensively on the relationships between nature, culture, memory and landscape in contexts ranging from the Mediterranean to Japan. Her publications include Geographies of Disorientation (Routledge, 2017).