Energies

Prof. Dr. Xiaoshu Lu

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1. Civil Engineering, Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FIN-02130 Espoo, Finland
2. Energy Technologies, University of Vaasa, P.O. Box 700, FIN-65101 Vaasa, Finland
Interests: energy efficient low carbon buildings; heat recovery technologies; demand control ventilation; heat and moisture transfer in buildings; indoor air quality; renewable energies; thermal energy storage; unconventional energy (gas hydrate; oil shale); smart cities
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Dr. Elena Lucchi

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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura (DICAr), University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 3, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: renewable energies; energy efficiency; energy audit; energy simulation; built environment; cultural heritage
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Prof. Dr. Marcel Macarulla Marti

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Group of Research and Innovation in Construction (GRIC), Department of Project and Construction Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: energy efficiency; energy districts; modelling; indoor air quality; thermal comfort in buildings; life cycle assessment
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Prof. Dr. Krushna Mahapatra

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Department of Built Environment and Energy Technology, Linnaeus University, SE-35195 Växjö, Sweden
Interests: energy renovation; one-stop shop; business model; business innovation; energy performance contract; district level renovation; household behavior; energy policy; transition management; role of local authorities
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Dr. Massimiliano Manfren

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Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Interests: building physics; building services engineering; renewable energy technologies; data mining; operation research; analytics; sustainability transitions; energy transitions; open data; open science
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Prof. Dr. Wahid Maref

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Construction Engineering Department, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), University of Quebec, Montréal, QC H3C 1K3, Canada
Interests: building science; building physics; modelling and numerical simulation of building heat; moisture transfer; fluid mechanics; CFD modeling; energy system and performance analyses; national and international building codes; design and development of test bench; assessment of a building envelope hygrothermal performance; building envelope’s energy and airtightness analysis; energy management;
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Prof. Dr. Ingrid Martorell

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Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial Engineering, DIEI, University of Lleida, 25003 Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Interests: building sustainability; monitoring of experimental buildings and constructive systems; monitoring and simulation comparisons; thermal comfort; and passive and active techniques
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Dr. Gerardo Maria Mauro

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Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Piazza Roma 21, 82100 Benevento, Italy
Interests: thermodynamics; modeling of energy systems; energy optimization; energy efficiency; building performance simulation; building optimization; energy retrofit; sustainable design; cost-optimal analysis; energy policies
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Prof. Dr. Francesco Minichiello

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples, p.le Tecchio, 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
Interests: heating and air conditioning systems; thermal-hygrometric characteristics of the building envelope; energy efficiency in buildings; nearly and net zero energy buildings; plus zero energy buildings
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Prof. Dr. Ayman S. Mosallam

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Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Interests: FRP composites; structural health monitoring; green buildings, sustainable repair & rehabilitation of structural systems, renewable energy
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Prof. Dr. Alberto Muscio

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Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari", University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41121 Modena, Italy
Interests: renewable energy technologies; energy efficiency in building; energy efficiency in industrial processes; passive cooling

Prof. Dr. Tuan Ngo

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Advanced Protective Technologies for Engineering Structures(APTES) Group, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Interests: civil and structural engineering; disaster mitigation; security and protective engineering; sustainable buildings and infrastructure
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Dr. Francesco Nocera

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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAR), University of Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy
Interests: buildings energy analysis; environmental thermo-fluid dynamics; natural and artificial lighting; environmental and building acoustics; solar energy; heat transfer; energy saving; renewable energy
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Prof. Dr. Edward Hugh Owens

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School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Interests: built environment; occupancy detection; demand management; APAtSCHE; carbon accounting; home energy saving

Prof. Dr. Adolfo Palombo

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80138 Napoli, NA, Italy
Interests: heating and cooling of buildings—thermodynamic and economic analysis of innovative air conditioning systems, numerical simulations of air conditioning and ventilating systems performance; energetics—energy saving in civil and industrial buildings, thermodynamic, economic and environmental analysis of power systems, renewable energy for civil and industrial applications; thermo-fluid-dynamics measurements—innovative flow rate measurement devices; industrial local ventilation devices
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Prof. Dr. Wilmer Pasut

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Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics, University of Venice, 30172 Mestre (VE), Italy
Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; co-benefits; energy flexibility; plus energy buildings; NZEB; IEQ; thermal comfort; personal comfort systems
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Dr. Giovanni Pernigotto

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Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Università 5, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Interests: building physics; building energy performance; building performance simulation; urban simulation; indoor environmental quality; weather data for building simulation
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Prof. Dr. Steffen Petersen

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Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Interests: building science; sustainable buildings; building simulation; indoor environmental quality; commissioning; building design process
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Prof. Dr. Bruno Peuportier

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Center for Energy Efficiency of Systems, MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, 75006 Paris, France
Interests: building energy simulation; life cycle assessment; ecodesign; energy performance
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Prof. Dr. Maria Manuela Prieto Gonzalez

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Department of Energy, University of Oviedo, Campus de Viesques, 33204 Gijon, Spain
Interests: systens for heating and coolin; energy in buildings; increase of storage materials’ capibilities; sustentability: economy and environment; heat transfer models and applications
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Prof. Dr. Menghao Qin

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Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Interests: advanced building physics; innovative energy materials; building energy efficiency; indoor environmental quality

Dr. Rokia Raslan

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Bartlett School Env, Energy & Resources, Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London, London, UK
Interests: computational modelling; analysis and monitoring of the energy performance of the domestic and commercialbuilding stock; development of building analysis models; delivery of retrofit strategies; the application of energy policy and legislation in the built environment

Dr. Paulo Santos

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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, 3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: sustainable materials; circular economy; thermal behaviour and energy efficiency of buildings; lightweight steel-framed (LSF) construction
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Prof. Dr. Jonas Šaparauskas

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Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio al. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: energy efficiency of buildings; sustainable construction; multiple criteria decision making; building construction technology and organisation
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Prof. Dr. Ioan Sarbu

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Department of Civil and Building Services Engineering, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Piata Victoriei 2A, 300006 Timisoara, Romania
Interests: refrigeration and heat pump systems; solar energy conversion and storage; energy efficiency and energy savings; thermal comfort and environmental quality; water and heat distribution systems; numerical simulations and optimizations in building services
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Dr. Mahdi Shahbakhti

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Energy Mechatronics Laboratory (EML), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1H9, Canada
Interests: buildings; HVAC; renewables integration into buildings; automotive; optimization; control

Prof. Dr. Monica Siroux

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Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Strasbourg (INSA), ICUBE UMR CNRS 7357 Laboratory, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; renewable energy
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Dr. Fitsum Tariku

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Building Science Centre of Excellence, British Columbia Institute of Technology, 3700 Willingdon Ave., Burnaby, BC, Canada
Interests: building performance optimization; net-zero energy; smart buildings; passive design; energy efficiency; thermal comfort; high-performance materials; whole-building hygrothermal performance; building integrated renewable systems; life-cycle assessment
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Prof. Dr. Zhe Tian

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School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Interests: building integrated energy system; operation optimization of HVAC system; building and urban climate
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Dr. Athanasios Tzempelikos

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Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051, USA
Interests: design and optimization of high performance buildings; daylighting; building envelopes and dynamic facade systems; indoor environmental quality; building simulation

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