PEOPLE
HEAD
ASSOCIATE & ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Prof. Giovanni Pernigotto
Numerical and experimental characterization of the dynamic behaviour of the opaque components. Characterization of the thermal and visual behaviour of simple and complex fenestration systems. Assessment via simulation of the energy performance of buildings. Building simulation at district/urban scale and definition of energy policies. Assessment of indoor environmental quality conditions. Study of climatic boundary conditions for building energy simulation analyses.

Dr. Federica Morandi
Subjective and objective evaluation of global comfort, thermal, visual, acoustic and IAQ. Acoustics of timber buildings.

Dr. Marco Caniato
Subjective and objective evaluations of special environment for special users. Numerical and experimental characterization of materials for acoustic and thermoigrometric applications. Numerical and experimental characterization of buildings elements for acoustic and thermoigrometric applications. Subjective and objective assessment of indoor comfort in built environments. Laboratory measurements of building elements and partitions.
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

Federico Battini
Urban Building Energy Modeling – assessment of groups of buildings’ energy use at multiple time and spatial scales.

Riccardo Albertin
Natural and mechanical ventilation, experimental and numerical assessment of indoor air quality and assessment of COVID-19 contagion risk in the built environment.

Julian Donges
Energy efficiency in buildings, multi-objective optimization and passive design. User behavior modelling and user resilient strategies in smart green buildings.
PhD STUDENTS

Arianna Marzi
Energy efficiency in buildings. Comfort in environments for special needs. Building energy modelling.

Aleksandr Gevorgian
Solar radiation models for building performance simulation in mountain areas: development and empirical validation.

Angelica El Hokayem
“Support to the Public Administration for developing new energy and sustainable policies for the built environment”.
PhD Project funded in the framework of the DM 351/2022 (PNRR), in collaboration with the Municipality of Bozen-Bolzano.

Riccardo Gazzin
“Façade commissioning, from early design to end of life for a user centered and zero emission building”.
PhD Project funded in the framework of the DM 352/2022 (PNRR) and co-funded by EURAC Research.

Gregorio Borelli
“Development of urban building energy models to support the definition of energy policies by municipalities and local public administrations”.
PhD Project funded in the framework of the DM 118/2023 (PNRR), in collaboration with the Municipality of Bozen-Bolzano.
LABORATORY TECHNICIAN

Christian Platzgummer
Technical support to professors and researchers for the development of the research projects through the maintenance of the measurement equipment and the support in the design and execution of field campaign.
ALUMNI
Dr. Rigoberto Arambula Lara
Dr. Anna Maria Atzeri
Arch. Matteo Bellé
Dr. Nadja Bishara
Dr. Jorge Conejo Fernandez
Dr. Simone Dugaria
Dr. Danovska Maja
Dr. Margret Sybille Engel
Dr. Fahad Haneef
Mr. Sumanth Manthapuri
Mr. Sourav Mondal
Dr. Gianluca Pappaccogli
Dr. Paola Penna
Dr. Lorenza Pistore
Dr. Ilaria Pittana
Prof. Alessandro Prada
Dr. Stefanie Tafelmeier
Dr. Mariantonietta Tarantini
Dr. Simone Torresin
Dr. Luca Zaniboni

The Building Physics Research Group