Carlotta received her Ph.D. from the Scuola Normale Superiore in 2018, with a research thesis titled Practices of Resistance in the Housing struggle in Rome. A spatial and strategic approach. Her postdoctoral experience includes a participatin in the Excellence Project “Territorial Fragility” in the Department of Urban Studies (Dastu) at the Polytechnic of Milan. In this framework, she focused her analyses on socio-spatial inequalities and segregation in contemporary urban spaces. She is currently working on  transnational forms of Solidarity in Europe. Her main research interests include urban movements, changes in urban structures and capitalistic models of production, housing policies and practices. She adopts qualitative and ethnographic approach.