Torres Gwendolyn

PHD CANDIDATE | 39th PHD CYCLE

Short Profile outline

Gwen is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Management Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Her research focus is organizational design decisions for scaling up start-ups. She is an experienced development and communications professional who has dedicated her career to socio-environmental issues impacting marginalized communities. Often collaborating with diverse stakeholders and networks in multiple languages, she has worked in the education, technology, non-profit, social enterprise, real estate, retail, defense, and sustainable architecture sectors.

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Research

Research interests: just transitions, environmental economics, innovation economics, entrepreneurship, sustainable design, digital transitions

Research projects: Organizational design decisions to scale-up startups

Supervisor: Evila Piva, Massimo Colombo

Grants, Awards and Honours

  • Université Paris Cité Smarts-Up Excellence Scholarship, Poltecnio di Milano 39th Cycle PhD Management Engineering Scholarship

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