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• in 2018, Prof Denise Cuthbert, Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Training and Development and Senior Manager School of Graduate Research RMIT University, approached Prof. Maturana with the opportunity to manage 3 international PhDs with stipends for Chilean candidates. Prof. Maturana undertook the responsibility for the promotion, selection of candidates, while also assisting them with the process of defining the research proposals and finding supervisors. These three students are now undertaking their PhD research at RMIT in Melbourne.
• Architect Federica Fuligni. Exchange student from the Università di Bologna, Scuola di Ingegneria e Architettura. Prof. Maturana was the supervisor in Federica’s Research Seminar, “A comparative assessment of guidelines for urban sustainability. Case study: Casas Viejas, Puente Alto”, research that was part of the student work undertaken within Prof. Maturana’s FONDECYT Nº11140181. Prof. Maturana was later invited as co-supervisor (main supervisor Prof. Ernesto Antonini) in Federica Fuligni’s Master Degree thesis, Università di Bologna, Scuola di Ingegneria e Architettura, in the rol of Co-rapporteur, Master Thesis in Architecture (Laurea Magistralle) “Strategie di Riqualificazione Urbana Sostenibile della Vivienda Social. Linee guida per il quartiere di Casas Viejas, Santiago del Cile”, student: Federica Fuligni, Università di Bologna, March 17, 2016.
• Architect Scarlet Romano Patiño. Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Chile. Scarlet undertook her ‘professional seminar’, also her thesis and the professional final architectural project (1 of the 3 stages that comprises the professional Architectural qualification) with Prof. Maturana. She was an assistant for the Sustainable Campus subject, developed by Prof. Maturana and later worked as research assistant in the research Fondecyt No. 11130636 (2013-2016), where she not only contributed with management duties but also presented in conferences and was Prof. Maturana’s co-author in various papers and news articles. During the last year of the Fondecyt research, Scarlet simultaneously, continued her studies undertaking a master’s degree (2015-2017) and later was awarded an Erasmus scholarship to undertake a second master’s degree at the Universities of Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin y Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland. Scarlet is soon to apply for a doctorate scholarship in Germany.
• Mechanic Engineer Victor Manuel Rodriguez Nuñez. Faculty of Physical Sciences and Mathematics (FCFM), University of Chile. Prof. Maturana was co-supervisor of Victor´s final research (professional qualification), as part of Prof. Maturana Fondecyt research. His principal supervisor was Prof. Ramón Frederick González, FCFM. Victor’s work focused on an urban scale climatization of a large housing development utilizing geothermal energy within Prof. Maturana’s case study research. His work provided an alternative solution to alleviate energy poverty affecting most low-income city dwellers. Victor graduated with the highest marks and the collaborative work concluded with a co-authored publication lead by Victor Rodriguez Nuñez (Rodríguez V., Muñoz M., Frederick R., y Maturana B., 2015). Victor was also Prof. Maturana’s assistant in the subject Sustainable Campus. He has now completed 3 years working at the Marista de Alto Hospicio School as part of the Foundation Chile Teach and he is looking to undertaking postgraduate studies in Australia.
• Architect Apolet Oteiza Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Chile. Apolotel undertook her Seminar (1 of the 3 stages that comprises the professional Architectural qualification). In 2014 she undertook her Seminar under the supervision of Prof. Maturana, contributing to the on-site collecting of information for the research project Fondecyt Nº11130636. Later Apolet undertook a degree in Development and Integrated Urban Planning at the Catholic University (PUC). She has worked in the Barrio Recuperation Program for the Ministry of Public Works (MOP).
• Architect Eleanor Chapman. RMIT University and former president of Architect for Peace (NGO established by prof. Maturana) between 2010-2014. As the founder and president of Architects for Peace (founded in 2003-2010) Prof Maturana mentored Eleanor Chapman in sub-committees such as architectural pro bono services and lecture series program (Words @ bldg.50). Eleanor became a well-known representative of the organization, coordinator of words@bldg50, co-managed pro bono service and became president in 2010. This experience contributed to her professional and academic career with a focus on sustainable development in poorer regions. Eleanor is now finishing her Master of Science - Land Management at the Technical University Munich, Germany. She is also working for ICLEI (Europe and Australia). ICLEI has been an important supporter of the events carried out by Architects for Peace and a contributor to Prof. Maturana’s Fondecyt project.
• Architect Targol Khorram became president of Architects for Peace (2015-2017). Targol arrived in Australia from Iran in 2014 and joined Architects for Peace where she was mentored in the operations of the organization and became president in 2015-2017. She is now working for the City of Stonnington (Melbourne) and as an academic at the University of Melbourne.
• Architect Sarah Bridges was a student of Prof. Maturana at the University of Melbourne where her academic achievement was high. She joined and contributed to Architects for Peace (2006-2009) and left to undertake a master’s degree in Germany. She is now director of AECOM, a US public enterprise focused on sustainable infrastructure. She is also a mentor of engineering students at the University of Melbourne.

Prof. Maturana returned to Chile in 2012 after living for 27 years in Australia. She became familiar with Chilean national issues concerning social housing and urban sustainability and successfully achieved funding for research for the development of the Fondecyt Initiation Project No. 11130636, “Housing for Social Integration and Environmental Sustainability: an investigation of two key projects in Chile” (2013-2016). This was the one of the first research to investigate the urban and social results of these housing projects in Chile and generated publications in international magazines, outreach activities, national and international networks, guided seminar studies and title projects for undergraduate students and formed the basis of a case study for a multidisciplinary work with the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Chile. She is now co-supervising a PhD student, Ana Spataru, from Deakin University, who is investigating similar issues in Melbourne Australia.
Concurrently in her role as Academic Director and International Relations of FAU UChile, and in relation to the international partnerships that were generated through the aforementioned research, Prof. Maturana increased international university collaboration and achieved additional mobility agreements (academic and student). This included new agreements, research collaboration and exchanges between FAU and City Futures (University of New South Wales, Australia); RMIT University and Global Compact Cities, UN.
Additionally, Prof. Maturana has participated as a co-researcher in a FADOP Innovation Fund (2017), Line of Action No. 4, “U. Chile Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I + E) Program”, 2018-2020.
Prof. Maturana originally developed and proposed a University forum on city and sustainability for the UN COP25 summit planned for December 2019 in Santiago. COP25 was moved to Spain due to the October Crisis. In its place, and with the online necessity of COVID 19, Prof. Maturana co-directed, chaired and moderated two round tables of Q&A presentations in the highly successful symposium entitled Ethical Turns and the City. This was a partnership between FAU, FEN, (the Business School, UChile), Architects for Peace, and APRU.
Prof. Maturana collaborates actively in the management team and as a representative of her Faculty in the discussions and activities of APRU (Association Pacific Rim Universities) in the area of Sustainable Cities and Landscape Hub.
Member of:
• Architects for Peace: current President (2020) founding member (2003) former President (2003-2010) and member since 2003.
• Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU): member of the executive committee of the Sustainable Cities and Landscape Hub, since March 2017.
• European Network for Housing Research (ENHR), since November 2016.
• Global Cities Compact Program, belonging to the UN, as Urban Scholar, since 2014.
• International Association People-Environment Studies (IAPS), member No. 1900, since 2013.