Graziella Del Duca is an integrated researcher at ISTAR-Iscte. She graduated cum laude in Architecture from the University of Florence in 2010, specializing in laser scanning and photogrammetric survey methodologies for architectural heritage documentation and urban management. In 2015, she earned a PhD in Architectural Survey and Representation from the University of Florence, with a dissertation evaluated as excellent and focused on advanced digital survey workflows.

With over twenty years of international experience across academia, applied research, and professional practice, Graziella Del Duca has developed recognized expertise in HBIM methodologies, multi-scale digitization strategies, 3D reconstruction, and the documentation of built heritage for long-term preservation, management, and planning. She has contributed to major research initiatives at both urban and architectural scales, promoted by public bodies and private institutions.

In 2020, she was awarded a highly competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship, serving as Principal Investigator of the EU-funded project “Quad2BIM” at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. During the fellowship period, from 2020 to 2023, she designed and taught the graduate and doctoral-level courses “Scan-to-BIM” and “Advanced Scan-to-BIM”, contributing to advanced training in HBIM workflows and digital heritage documentation.

She is currently the recipient of the competitive Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus – 7th Edition, awarded in 2026, for the implementation of the research project “A Multi-Scale Geo-Information System for Urban Governance: A CIM Platform” at Iscte.