Chiara Castelli graduated in Marketing and Business Communication at the University of Milano-Bicocca (2016) and obtained a master’s degree in Economics at the University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (2020). She co-authored the latest report on the Quality of Life in European Cities 2020 of the European Commission, at the end of her traineeship at the EC’s Joint Research Center. Today, she collaborates as research assistant at the University of Brescia with Sergio Vergalli (University of Brescia, FEEM) to the PRIN project “For a re-launch of productivity in the European territory: from post-crisis structural changes to alternative development scenarios”.