Alessandra Battisti Prof. Battisti is a Professor of Architecture with a PhD in Environmental Design. She is a practicing architect, she is a Professor of Environmental Design and Technology of Architecture at the School of Architecture of Sapienza University of Rome, where she oversees the Master’s programs in “Landscape Architecture” (2016-2019) and “Architecture-Urban Regeneration” (2019) and serves as the Director of the level-2 Master’s program in “Valorisation and Enhancement of Small Historical Centres” (2013 to the present). She is on the Faculty Board and teaching staff of the Ph.D. program in Environmental Design & Planning (since 2013). An expert consultant for the European Community - DG XXII – on energy in the building sector; expert consultant to the Rolls of Consultants and Permanent Rolls of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. Member of the Work Group on Energy Efficiency of the Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. She has personally published more than 200 scientific publications and 14 books and winner of more than 30 international Architectural Competitions. Since 1992 she has been carrying out research, teaching and experimentation activities on topics such as technological innovation for environmentally aware architecture, buildings’ ecological and energetic efficiency, bioclimatic approach in design and environmental sustainability from and architectural point of view and environmental sustainability from an architectural and urban fabric point of view. From 1996 she has taken part in numerous research projects, where she was the Scientific coordinator for Faculty Researches and Coordinator for DAAD, MIUR, Athenaeum and Third Party Researches. Since 1997 she has been a Visiting Professor at Italian and Overseas Universities, in Master Programs, Postgraduate Courses in Italy and abroad on subjects linked to Innovative technologies and Bioclimatic and Sustainable Experimentation in Architecture.
Cristina Piselli is Assistant professor of Environmental Applied Physics at the Department of Architecture (DIDA), University of Florence, Italy. She holds a master degree in Building Engineering - Architecture from the University of Perugia, Italy, and a PhD in Energy and Sustainable development from CIRIAF - Interuniversity Research Centre on Pollution and Environment “Mauro Felli”, University of Perugia, Italy. She works in the field of Environmental Applied Physics and Building Physics. She has participated in several national and international projects aimed at promoting the energy transition through building energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and human wellbeing in the built environment, such as the H2020 INPATH-TES project, the H2020 ZERO- PLUS project, the H2020 SWS-HEATING project, the H2020 GeoFit project, and the H2020 NRG2peers project. Moreover, she is an expert member of IEA EBC Annex 79 - Occupant-Centric Building Design and Operation and she was part of the previous IEA EBC Annex 66 - Definition and Simulation of Occupant Behavior in Buildings. Up to 2021, she was a member of the EAP Lab (Environmental Applied Physics Laboratory) research team at the University of Perugia, dealing with building energy efficiency and, specifically, occupant behavior and human comfort in the built environment, dynamic analysis of building energy performance, active and passive innovate solutions for building and communities energy efficiency and urban heat island mitigation, energy systems, and energy communities. She is continuing the collaboration with this group and research in those topics. She has been working on the applied research and tech transfer topics of (i) development and novel testing of new smart materials and energy systems for the built environment, (ii) human-centered design of indoors and outdoors through multidimensional comfort analysis and occupant behavior investigation, (iii) modeling and monitoring of buildings and districts for urban heat island mitigation and inter-building optimal operation, and (iv) refrigeration in the commercial sector.
Eric Strauss is trained as both a land use lawyer and as an urban and regional planner. He is an academic who has taught in both fields. He has held faculty positions in the following disciplines: agriculture; architecture and urban design; environmental studies; geography; law; public administration; public affairs; and urban and regional planning. Dr. Strauss began his career working in Wisconsin. He then joined the University of Kansas where he was the Chair of the Graduate Program in Urban Planning. He served as a city attorney and as planning director for various cities and counties. He also taught for brief periods at Indiana University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Jackson State University. In 2001 he moved to Michigan State University where he was Director of the Urban and Regional Planning Program. He has taught at Universities in Irela
