Agatino Rizzo works as a senior lecturer of urban planning and design in the Research Group of Architecture of the   Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering at Lulea University of Technology (Sweden). He is a member of ISOCARP (since 2009) and national delegate for Sweden at AESOP.

Since 2004 Agatino Rizzo has worked as a consultant for private firms and public agencies in the fields of strategic planning (e.g. Metropolitan Strategic Plan for the city of Catania, Italy), urban design (e.g. Concept for the Renewal of Spoleto’s Roman Theater), and spatial planning (e.g. Concept for the Embankment of River Drava, Maribor, Slovenia) in Europe.

Dr. Rizzo obtained a Master in Engineering-Architecture (in 2004) and a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning (in 2008) at the University of Catania, Italy where he studied metropolitan planning and the impacts of rural-to-urban migration. Between 2006 and 2008 he also worked as a visiting post-graduate researcher in the department of surveying at the Helsinki University of Technology (today Aalto University, Finland) and in the Kolleg program at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (Germany).

Since 2009 Agatino Rizzo has been teaching subjects such as, amongst others, sustainable urban development, climate adaptation, metropolitan planning, land use planning, and computer aided planning for bachelor and post-graduate students at Lulea University of Technology, the University of Auckland, Qatar University, and University Technology Malaysia. In 2013 he coordinated the ISOCARP Young Planning Professionals Workshop in Ulyanovsk, Russia.

Agatino’s main research area is metropolitan urban policy, and within it he studies issues related to Resource Cities, Climate Sensitive Urban Planning, and Urban Megaprojects in developing and developed countries.