Dorotea Ottaviani is an architect, researcher, and educator. She is a Research Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome (IT) and is engaged in a Horizon2020 project on NBS and Public Space. She has also lectured at the Glasgow School of Art (UK), Virginia Tech (USA), GSA University of Johannesburg (SA), University of Bologna (IT), and Quasar Institute (IT).
She contributed to the establishment of the practice-based PhD programmes at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg (SA), and Virginia Tech (US).