Federica Sanchez is an architect and researcher in Applied Neuroscience at Lombardini22 since 2020. She works on projects ranging from workplace, rest houses, schools and prisons, advising architects from the concept phase to executive design.

Since 2023 she collaborates with MySpace Lab, a research centre of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Lausanne, to quantitatively measure people’s experience of space.

Besides designing, Federica is part of NuArch, a research project born from the collaboration between Lombardini22 and CNR-IN Parma, which investigates the effects of architecture on human beings from a neuro-physiological and social point of view under the guidance of neuroscientist Giacomo Rizzolatti.

She is interested in the field of neuroaesthetics and its applications in art and design, neuroergonomics and phenomenology, and lectures at international universities.

Federica holds a degree in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano and a degree in Landscape Architecture from the Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands). She has worked in Japan, The Netherlands and Italy, collaborating on various projects such as installations, schools and hospitals. He later obtained a Postgraduate Master’s degree in ‘Neuroscience applied to Architectural design’ at IUAV, Venice, and a Master’s degree in ‘Olfactory Spatial Design’ at POLI.Design.