alexandra.montenegro@phd.unipi.it

Alexandra Lyselott Montenegro is a PhD student in Geosciences and Environment at the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Pisa. They research project aims to optimise the road traffic distribution as mitigation action for road traffic noise exposition on sensitive receivers in the urban environment. Noise is caused by anthropogenic action on the environment and is one of the major environmental problems in Europe. The main source of noise pollution in cities is generated by road traffic and its prolonged exposure can cause significant health risk such as hearing damage, annoyance, affect mortality, sleep disturbance, cognitive interference processes and generally hit people's quality of life. The development of a sustainable action plan to mitigate community noise exposure is an incisive action towards the 2050 vision of a Healthy Planet for All, which sets out in the Zero Pollution Action Plan issued by the European Union a 30% reduction of noise exposure before 2030.
Alexandra L. Montenegro graduated in Civil Acoustics Engineer at the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh) in 2018 with a thesis focused on urban roads classification methods, research topic which they explored in depth in their master’s studies in Acoustics and Vibration completed at UACh by 2020. During their young research career, they had the opportunity to learn and collaborate with researchers from Latino America, North America and Europe combining Environmental Acoustics, Urbanism and Transportation Planning. In parallel they also worked as a Project Engineer and later became RDI Manager in an Acoustic consultancy, where they evaluated the environmental acoustic impact of projects throughout Chile and developed new technologies for the sector.
They have been involved as a student volunteer in organising activities for different acoustics international conferences, such as FIA, INGEACUS, NOISE-CON and Forum Acusticum. Alexandra is currently an active member of the events committee of The Young Acousticians Network (YAN).
Alexandra’s main interests are interdisciplinary research and women/LGBTQ+ inclusion in science and technology. They also love playing drums, gastronomic tasting and participating in electronic music events.

RESEARCH INTEREST 

• Environmental Acoustics
• Anthropogenic Noise Pollution
• Noise Mapping
• Geographic Information System
• Traffic Simulation

Research project: Development of a sustainable action plan to mitigate community noise exposure by the optimization of road traffic distribution.

Supervisors:

Professor Gaetano Licitra (ARPAT Pisa)
Professor Giovanni Zanchetta (DST-UNIPI)

Alexandra Lyselott Montenegro

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Università di Pisa
Via Santa Maria 53
56126 Pisa
Italia