Emmy Karimali holds a Diploma (MArch) of Architectural Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and an MSc in Human Geography from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) with a specialization on Urban Geography. Currently, she is a Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning (NTUA). Her research focuses on urban warfare and post-conflict mega-scale urban transformation projects.
She has been contributing as a professor's assistant for the courses of Urban Planning and Urban Sociology while participating in and presenting in many international academic conferences and seminars. She has been working on European research projects regarding migrants' communities of Athens, geographies of settlement, and cohabitation dynamics. She is part of the FemMap project team, where she mostly works as a community mapping facilitator endeavoring to produce an alternative and creative feminine map for Kipseli neighborhood.
As a partner of Commonspace, she is mostly working on developing projects, communication, and participatory planning such as 'Public Participation Planning Project for the Sustainability of Greek Island Gavdos'.