GUESTS & KEY LECTURES

Morning session

Dr. Eng. Marco Picco, Ph.D.

Construction Engineering and Management Research and Enterprise Group Sustainability and Resilience Engineering Research and Enterprise Group

Advanced Engineering Centre

Brighton University

After a degree in Architectural and Building Engineering and a Ph.D. in Energy and Environment Technologies at Bergamo University, he started his academi career and became a Senior Business Researcher/Senior Research Fellow at University of Brighton. He expanded his Ph.D. research on simplified building energy modelling for building design, developing it  into a web-based tool to support building design, both for educational and commercial purposes (www.freds4buildings.com). He is currently leading research in the development of a building performance simulation tools to support the integrated design process of new highly efficient buildings. He is also collaborating with on the integration of building energy simulation with BIM to improve building design and management.

Dr. Eng. Maurizio Pieve, Ph.D.

Tenured researcher at ENEA, TERIN (Department of Technologies Energetics and Renewable Sources) - PSU (Production, Storage and Energy Utilization), IPSE Laboratory (Engineering of Processes and Systems for Energy Decarbonization)

ENEA

Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Pisa, after a brief experience at Enel Produzione S.p.A./Ricerca, he continued his academic career with a PhD in Electrical and Thermal Energy and a research grant on high temperature heat exchangers for regeneration and recovery in advanced applications of conversion of coal and biomass, becoming in the meantime expert of the subject for the course of Technical Physics of the degree course in Aerospace Engineering of the University of Pisa. Since 2012 he has been a researcher for ENEA at the CNR of Pisa with appointment as Delegate for Italy in the Technical Collaboration Program of the IEA (International Energy Agency) on Heat Pumping Technologies.

Eng. Alberto Boriani

Co-founder of Logical Soft Srl,  CEO of ISNOVA S.c.r.l

ISNOVA

Graduated in Electronic Engineering with a computer focus in 1995 at the Milan Polytechnic, qualified and registered in the Order of Engineers of Milan, he is a founding partner of Logical Soft Srl, a company of which he is Chief Executive Officer, Software Engineer and trainer. Since 2019 he has been the Sole Director of ISNOVA S.c.r.l, an ENEA investee company, and coordinates its dissemination and training activities.

Prof. Eng. Fabio Fantozzi

Associate Professor DESTeC Department

University of Pisa

Lecturer at the courses of "Thermotechnical Systems in Building" for the Master of Science Degree in Building Engineering and the Master of Science Degree in Building Engineering - Architecture and "Building Physics" for the Master of Science Degree in Building Engineering - Architecture. Scientific activity has been carried out in the field of Technical Physics, with applications both in the industrial sector and related to the building-plant system. He has taken part to several research projects on the topics of energy renovation of residential and tertiary buildings and the development of basic algorithms for dynamic models of building-plant systems for Mediterranean buildings, with particular reference to building-plant interaction. Professional activity included works on hybrid solar systems, photovoltaic systems and heat pumps, design of thermotechnical systems, the noise measurements and fire and safety issues.

Dr. Eng. Jérôme H. Kämpf, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

Idiap Research Institute

Dr Jérôme Kämpf trained in physics at the University of Lausanne, University of Kent at Canterbury and Imperial College London. He completed his training with a computer science and a postgraduate degree in teacher education, before doing his PhD at EPFL on the modelling and optimisation of urban energy fluxes. Jerome led for six years a research group at EPFL first in Sustainable Urban Development and then in Urban Systems Simulation, further developing the Urban Energy Simulator CitySim that he initiated during his PhD. From 2016 to 2018, he served as professor of Building Energy Efficiency at the HES-SO in Fribourg. Since the end of 2018, Jérôme heads the Energy Informatics Group at the Idiap Research Institute focusing on AI for Energy-related challenges.

Prof. Eng. Ongun Berk Kazanci

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering Indoor Environment

Technical University of Denmark, DTU,

Ongun works as an Associate Professor of Indoor Environmental Quality and HVAC Systems at the International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy at DTU and as a Senior Engineer Building Physics in Buro Happold. He completed his Ph.D. on “Low temperature heating and high temperature cooling in buildings” in 2016 at DTU. His main research interests are indoor environmental quality, human thermal comfort, low temperature heating and high temperature cooling systems, their integration with renewable energy resources, thermodynamic analyses of HVAC systems, and building energy performance simulation. He has received several awards including DTU's Young Researcher Award in 2016, REHVA Young Scientist Award in 2017 and SCANVAC Award for Young Researchers in 2022. He is a member of ASHRAE and IBPSA-Nordic.

Prof. Arch. Sue Roaf, Ph.D.

School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society

Institute for Sustainable Building Design

HERIOT WATT University

Sue Roaf is professor emeritus at Heriot Watt University. She is an author, architect, teacher and solar energy pioneer. He spent ten years in Iran and Iraq, involved in archaeological excavations, working in anthropology on nomadic migrations and studying desert technologies. Among his 22 books are those on ice houses, on high energy efficiency buildings, on the adaptation of buildings and cities to climate change, on sustainability indicators, on adaptive and resilient thermal comfort, on natural energy buildings. A former city councilor of Oxford, he is director of AES Solar Energy Ltd. and of Ecohouse Initiative Ltd. and is a consultant to the Resilient Design Institute of New York. He led the Scottish Government's program on adaptation in the built environment and recently worked in Antarctica on extreme refuge design.

Prof. Eng. Stefano Schiavon

Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering

UC Berkeley

Stefano Schiavon, PhD, is a Professor of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Stefano’s research is focused on finding ways to reduce energy consumption in buildings while improving occupant health, well-being and performance.