Marta Severo is Full Professor in Communication at the University of Paris Nanterre where she is in charge of the Department of Information and Communication. She is a member and Deputy Director of the Dicen laboratory. In 2018, she has been awarded as junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Beside these institutional commitments, since 2012, she coordinates the theme Media and territories of the International College of Territorial Sciences (CIST) in Paris.
Her research focuses on action research in social sciences through web-based data. Her research activities focus on two thematic areas: (i) the collaborative construction of cultural heritage and memories on the web and (ii) the digital representations of place and space. She has obtained several funding (H2020, ANR, Labex, CNRS, ESPON, UNESCO ..).