Giorgio Varanini
Research Associate & PhD Candidate
Junior Research Group BIOPOLISTA
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
I am a research associate and PhD candidate at the junior research group BIOPOLISTA (Bioeconomy Policy Implementation in Bioeconomy States), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. My background spans classical philology, public policy, and economics — an interdisciplinary path that shapes how I approach questions of governance and sustainability.
My PhD project, developed within the project PolDeRBio ("Policy Designs for Resilient Bioeconomies"), focuses on resilience in bio-based production systems. I address questions such as: how can we design policies that enable the resilience of bio-based production systems? Why are certain resilience challenges systematically underprioritized? How can the concept of resilience be reflexively applied to bio-based production systems?
Within BIOPOLISTA, I study whether and how bioeconomy policies are implemented, with a particular focus on Colombia, where I was an Invited Researcher at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in 2025.