Simone Vegliò is a Docent (Associate Professor) in Geography and a researcher at Malmö University. He holds a PhD in Geography (King’s College London, 2019) and works at the intersection of Urban and Political Geography, using infrastructure as a critical lens to analyze socio-spatial, environmental, and geopolitical transformations.
His current research examines the development of global infrastructure in South America’s River Plate basin, with a focus on commercial ports as strategic nodes within agribusiness systems. Through this lens, he examines how infrastructure investment reshapes socio-ecological and geopolitical dynamics and reconfigures urban-regional dynamics, with particular attention to China’s role.
His previous work has analyzed neo-extractive and logistics operations in Buenos Aires’ Dock Sud, tracing their socio-material and environmental effects on urban space and local communities. Earlier research explored Latin American urbanization from a historical and postcolonial perspective, examining major architectural transformations contributed to the naturalization and consolidation of the nation-state in the region.
He has taught across Human Geography and International Relations at Malmö University, King’s College London, University College London, and Leuphana University.
He is Research Affiliate at the Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago.