Caterina Anastasia has obtained a Degree in Architecture at Università degli Studi di Firenze in Italy, then she achieved a Master's Degree at Departamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos at Universidad Politéctica de Cataluña in Spain. Her PhD is in Urbanism as International Doctorate Mention at Departamento de Urbanismo y Ordenación del Territorio in Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya in Spain and she received an academic prize awarded by Centro Italiano per la Riqualificazione Fluviale (CIRF).
She is currently conducting a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. She also conducts the research project «Through the river landscapes: the City of the Tagus Estuary» at Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design (CIAUD) at Facultade de Arquitectura in Universidade de Lisboa. She has developed her research activity at Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain, at Hanoi Architectural University in Vietnam and at Politecnico di Torino in Italy. She has collaborated in european projects; she presented papers and posters at several national and international conferences and she have been invited as a speaker at postgraduate courses.
She is free-lance architect since 2001 and she obtained grand-prize from International Union of Architects in 2006 for“Celebration of cities 2”.
