Education
  • 2012 PhD Degree in Environmental Engineering University of Trento
  • 2007 Civil Engineering Degree, Univesity of Trento
Academic career and teaching activities
  • 10/2021 -                Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento
  • 11/2018 - 10/2021 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento
  • 2/2016 - 10/2018  Research Fellow at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Trento.
  • 7/2012 - 1/2016    Temporary Research Associate at the Faculty of Science and Technology Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
  • 12/2007- 4/2012    Temporary Research Associate at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Trento
Research interests
  • Optimization of energy efficiency in residential, civil and industrial sectors;
  • Dynamic performance of building envelopes and HVAC systems;
  • Measures of building and HVAC performances in laboratory and in real condition;
  • Uncertainty propagation in building energy simulation and in optimization processes;
  • Enhancing the coupling between high performance building (nZEB) and district heating/cooling system.
Memberships in societies and scientific committees
  • 9/2021 -   6/2022    Member of the organizing committee of the BSA 2022 Conference - Bolzano
  • 9/2018 -   6/2019    Member of the organizing committee of the BSA 2019 Conference - Bolzano
  • 9/2018 -   2/2019    Member of the organizing committee of the BS2019 Conference - Rome
  • 9/2016 -   2/2017    Member of the organizing committee of the BSA 2017 Conference - Bolzano
  • 8/2016 - 12/2016    Member of the organizing committee of the μCHP 2016 Conference - Bolzano
  • 9/2014 -   2/2015    Member of the organizing committee of the BSA 2015 Conference - Bolzano
  • Since 2011              Energy expert in the planning committee of the Pergine Valsugnana municipality
  • 1/2011 - 1/2015      Member of the executive council of IBPSA-Italy
  • 1/2007 - 1/2015      Member of the Scientific Committee of the LEED-Italy
Awards and honours
  • The paper Carlon, E., Schwarz, M., Verma, V.K., Prada, A., Baratieri, M., Schmidl, C. "Long-term monitoring of pellet boilers instaled in residential buildings: efficiency and operational behaviour" won the “Best Student Paper Award” in the EUBCE 2015 - 23rd  European Biomass Conference & Exibition, Wien (Austria)
  • The paper Penna, P., Prada, A., Cappelletti, A., Gasparella, A. ”Enhancing the energy and non-energy performance of existing buildings: a multi-objectives approach” was selected among the finalists for the best student paper award at the 3rd High Performance Building Conference at Purdue University, West Lafayette (USA).