Background and activities
Graduated cum laude in Building Engineering in 2005 and Ph.D. cum laude in Building Engineering in 2012 at Politecnico di Milano, I am a professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.
I am interested in promoting a human-centric vision of the built environment. Our interest ranges from the indoor environmental quality (thermal comfort, visual comfort, and indoor air quality), occupant behavior, building physics, energy conservation, model validation and calibration, to outdoor comfort and climate change.
In our research, we use several modeling techniques and simulation tools to investigate the building performance under diverse sources of uncertainty through several building performance simulation tools, computer-aided optimization algorithms, sensitivity analysis methods, statistical techniques, and machine learning algorithms.
In our research, we use several modeling techniques and simulation tools to investigate the building performance under diverse sources of uncertainty through several building performance simulation tools, computer-aided optimization algorithms, sensitivity analysis methods, statistical techniques, and machine learning algorithms.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Currently, from a research perspective:
- I am one of the subtask leaders of the International Energy Agency (IEA) EBC Annex 79 entitled Occupant-centric Building Design and Operation
- I am a member and technical contributor to the IEA EBC Annex 69 entitled Strategy and Practice of Adaptive Thermal Comfort in Low Energy Buildings,
- the Horizon 2020 European project QUANTUM entitled Quality management for building performance - improving energy performance by life cycle quality management, funded by the European Union.
In the last years, I was appointed an adjunct professor of Thermodynamics and Building Physics and Environmental Design at Politecnico di Milano.
From 2008 to 2018, I have been a member and technical contributor to
- the IEA EBC Annex 66 entitled Definition and Simulation of Occupant Behavior in Buildings,
- the joint IEA SHC Task 40 and ECBCS Annex 52 entitled Towards Net Zero Energy Solar Buildings.
I am one of the authors of more than 40 scientific publications and of five books and chapters dealing with indoor environmental quality, building performance simulation, building physics, mathematical optimization, smart and zero-energy buildings and energy efficiency in buildings.
TEACHING ACTIVITY
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2019) Impacts of the future weather data type on the energy simulation of buildings – Investigating long-term patterns of climate change and extreme weather conditions. Applied Energy.
- (2018) Review of adaptive thermal comfort models in built environmental regulatory documents. Building and Environment. vol. 137.
- (2018) Assessing energy-smartness in smart cities. Building Services Engineering Research & Technology. vol. 39 (1).
- (2018) Development of the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II. Building and Environment. vol. 142.
- (2018) A holistic approach to assess the exploitation of renewable energy sources for design interventions in the early design phases. Energy and Buildings. vol. 175.
- (2017) An Analysis of the Most Adopted Rating Systems for Assessing the Environmental Impact of Buildings. Sustainability. vol. 9 (7).
- (2017) Empirical validation and local sensitivity analysis of a lumped-parameter thermal model of an outdoor test cell. Building and Environment. vol. 130.
- (2017) An Exergy Analysis for Milano Smart City. Energy Procedia. vol. 111.
- (2017) The impact of climate change on the overheating risk in dwellings–A Dutch case study. Building and Environment. vol. 122.
- (2017) The Sustainability Challenge: How Multi-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Groups of Master Students Achieve Sustainable Architecture in Shanghai. AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES.
- (2017) Boosting solar accessibility and potential of urban districts in the Nordic climate: A case study in Trondheim. Solar Energy. vol. 149.
- (2017) Critical Analysis of Software Tools Aimed at Generating Future Weather Files with a view to their use in Building Performance Simulation. Energy Procedia. vol. 132C.
- (2017) The impact of design ventilation rates on the indoor air quality in residential buildings: an Italian case study. Indoor and Built Environment. vol. 26 (10).
- (2017) On occupant-centric building performance metrics. Building and Environment. vol. 122.
- (2017) International survey on current occupant modelling approaches in building performance simulation. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, Taylor & Francis. vol. 10 (5-6).
- (2017) Sustainable Energy in Cities: Methodology and Results of a Summer Course Providing Smart Solutions for a New District in Shanghai. Energy Procedia. vol. 111.
- (2016) The effect of spatial and temporal randomness of stochastically generated occupancy schedules on the energy performance of a multiresidential building. Energy and Buildings. vol. 127.
- (2016) A proposal of energy performance indicators for a reliable benchmark of swimming facilities. Energy and Buildings. vol. 129.
- (2016) A Review of Systems and Technologies for Smart Homes and Smart Grids. Energies. vol. 9 (5).
- (2016) Energy retrofit of a day care center for current and future weather scenarios. Procedia Engineering. vol. 145.