Simone Ferrari

Associate professor

Associate Professor of Building Physics and Building Energy Systems, eligible for the role of Full Professor, he began collaborating in teaching and scientific research at the Politecnico di Milano on the energy-environmental efficiency of the built environment in 1994. In detail, from 1998 to 2001, he worked as a Research Fellow on developing tools for implementing urban building regulations and standards towards CO₂ emissions reduction. From 1996 to 2001, he was also a consultant at the Ambiente Italia research institute, successfully conducting several studies on energy planning at the urban scale and on energy audits for building retrofit.

Since obtaining his first academic position as Assistant Researcher in 2001, he has formalised and coordinated, as scientific responsible, 1 M€ departmental research agreements and contracts and has participated in over thirty national and international research projects, including Annexes 46, 56 and 75 of the International Energy Agency – Energy in Buildings and Communities programme.

He has joined the Doctoral Boards of the PhD programmes “Technology and Design of Environmental Quality at the building and urban scale”, “Technology and Design for the Built Environment”, and “Design and Technology for the Enhancement of Cultural Heritage”, and he taught the PhD courses “Energy in building and systems”, “Strategies for energy recovery of the built environment”, “Energy efficiency in architectural design”, and “Methods and tools for the energy analysis of the built environment”.

He has been the supervisor of the following PhD Theses:
• “Process and tools for implementing eco-sustainable building design” (dissertation 2004)
• “Automation systems to keep down the energy waste in buildings – a tool for planning interventions” (dissertation 2008)
• “Technology of building systems and variability of environmental conditions: the performance of buildings in the adaptive comfort strategies” (dissertation 2011)
• “Characterisation of the existing building stocks to assess the effectiveness of large-scale energy strategies” (dissertation 2012)
• “Estimating the buildings’ hourly energy demand for Smart Energy District Planning” (dissertation 2019)
• “Smart city approach for neighbourhood social housing” (dissertation 2024)
• “Advanced Mechanical Ventilation Systems for Italian School Buildings” (dissertation 2025)

He is currently supervising the following PhD Theses:
• “An innovative integrated approach for retrofitting cultural heritage buildings in the Italian context”
• “Development of predictive models for the automation of the energy management of buildings”.

He is the author of over 140 publications, including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, monographs and scientific treatises, two-thirds of which are international in scope.