She is a tenured Associate professor at the Spatial Planning and Environment Department of the Engineering Polytechnic School of the University of Tours (France) and a researcher at the laboratory CITERES (a mixed unit of both the CNRS French National Centre for Scientific Research and the University of Tours). Laura Verdelli focuses her researches: - on the processes of identification, protection and valorisation of cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean; - on the contemporary dynamics engendered by the above mentioned processes (particularly in UNESCO’s labelled sites); - on the interactions between heritigization and (strategic) spatial planning.