Francesco Carota is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design, and Affiliate Researcher at the China Room research group.  Previously he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Architecture Design at the Polytechnic University of Turin where he received his Ph.D. (with Honors) in 2019. His doctoral dissertation, entitled China Brand Home. Business History and Projects Analysis of China Vanke, 1988-2016, was conducted in consultation with the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, where he spent several months as a visiting scholar.

Throughout his career, he developed and coordinated joint research and teaching program with a number of internationally renowned institutions including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Polytechnic University of Milan, the Tsinghua University in Beijing, the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He published book chapters and academic articles for editors such as Birkhauser, Springer Nature, and Actar Publishers, and he coedited the volume China Goes Urban. The City to Come for Skira Editore. In addition to academic publishing, he dedicated a great deal of effort to disseminating research and architectural culture to the broader public. He was scientific director of an exhibition on Chinese architecture and urbanization held at the MAO, Museum of Oriental Art in Turin, Italy, and co-curator of the Italian Pavilion at the Shenzhen Design Week – 2018 Edition.

Other than carrying on academic activities, he works as a licensed architect, and he is the cofounder of the architecture and design firm Calibro Zero Srl. His work and voice as a curator and designer appeared in different media sources, and among the many the Italian magazine Domus, the Singapore-based title d+a Design and Architecture and the architecture platform Archdaily.