Simone Ferrari
ING-IND/11 - Building physics and building energy systems
In 1994 he started collaborating in teaching and research activities at Politecnico di Milano in the fields of energy and environmental efficiency of the built environment. In detail, from 1998 to 2001 he worked as a Research Fellow on the development of tools for the implementation of urban building regulations and standards towards CO2 emissions reduction. From 1996 to 2001, he also was 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.
In 2001, having achieved his first academic role as Assistant Professor of Applied Environmental Physics, he started teaching the course Applied Environmental Physics at the faculty of Architecture (from 2010, the course Building Physics for the English section of the current AUIC School).
He also taught several additional courses, i.e., “Application of environmental physics in buildings”, “Implementation of applied environmental physics in the atelier of architectural design”, “Technical solutions for renovating historical buildings” (at the University of Palermo), and he activated the optional course “Eco-sustainability in the architectural design process”.
He has supervised 5 PhD theses (and he is currently supervising 2 PhD students), has joined the faculty 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 post-graduate 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 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 is the author of more than a hundred scientific publications, half of which are in the international arena.