Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering

Katiuscia Lavoratori is an Associate Professor at Sapienza University of Rome. Before joining Sapienza, she worked as an Assistant (Lecturer) Professor in International Business at Henley Business School, University of Reading (UK), and as a Research Fellow at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (UK). She is a Member of The Dunning Centre for International Business, and Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Her research lies at the intersection of International Business and Economic Geography, with particular reference to the economic analysis of location choices, the relationship between agglomeration and productivity, Industry 4.0, and the new geography of global value chains. Katiuscia’s work on these topics has received several awards, including the Copenhagen Business School Prize, the Global Strategy Journal Best Paper Award, and the Best Doctoral Thesis in Economics 2019–2020, awarded jointly by the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Trento and the Department of Economic Sciences at the University of Verona.

Her work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Regional Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Management International Review, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Technology Transfer, and Economics of Innovation and New Technology. She also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics.