Dr. Lucia Danzi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Tel +64 3 479 9243
Email  lucia.danzi@postgrad.otago.ac.nz

Lucia works at the Centre for Sustainability as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Ngā Ngaru Wakapuke RA1 “The Future” and RA2 “The Forecast”. She has an interdisciplinary background in disaster risk and resilience, with a focus on tourism. Her research aims at enhancing societal resilience to multi-hazard risks and disasters and helping communities and the tourism sector to be better prepared for future disaster events.

Fully funded by the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges Programme, Lucia completed her PhD at the University of Otago in November 2024. Using mixed methods social network analysis, her thesis explored how tourism and emergency management collaborate in disaster readiness and response, resulting in a framework to help stakeholders build and maintain effective networks.

In her current role, Lucia focuses on the use of Artificial Intelligence to identify knowledge gaps in the short-, medium-, and long-term impacts of multi-hazard events. She is also developing a tourism business dynamics model to understand how businesses adapt their behaviour and resilience strategies over time in response to earthquake sequences.

Lucia is originally from Verona, Italy. Outside of research, she enjoys hiking, volunteering for nature conservation, and the occasional wine tasting.

Thesis:  Inter-organisational Collaborative Networks in Tourism Disaster Management

Supervisors:

• Research Associate Professor Caroline Orchiston (Centre for Sustainability)
• Distinguished Professor James Higham (Tourism)