2026
Journal Articles
Dynamic indoor thermal environment control using Reinforcement Learning: Balancing energy efficiency and human well-being
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 2026. Vol. 167. DOI : 10.1016/j.engappai.2026.113846.Data-driven Human Energy Expenditure Prediction: Contrasting Personalized and Population-Based Models
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. 2026. Vol. 113, p. 109134. DOI : 10.1016/j.bspc.2025.109134.Conference Papers
Personalized Metabolic Rates Vs. ISO Standards
2026. 15th REHVA HVAC World Congress CLIMA 2025, Milan, Italy, 2025-06-04 – 2025-06-06. p. 816 – 824. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-032-06810-1_82.2025
Journal Articles
Advances in human thermophysiology modelling: Methodological review of a century of developments
Computers in Biology and Medicine. 2025. Vol. 198. DOI : 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.111218.Rethinking local thermal sensation prediction: The role of heat flux over skin temperature in personalized models
Building and Environment. 2025. Vol. 281, p. 113195. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.113195.A multidomain approach to neighbourhood typology for urban environmental studies
Sustainable Cities and Society. 2025. Vol. 128, p. 106378. DOI : 10.1016/j.scs.2025.106378.Personalised environmental Control Systems (PECS) usage thresholds: a dynamic simulation approach to assess energy, cost, and emissions saving
Energy and Built Environment. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbenv.2025.05.007.Conference Papers
Environmental Impact of Building Technical Installations: Comparative Study Using Swiss and French Databases and Real Case Studies
2025. CISBAT 2025 Built Environment in Transition, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-09-03 – 2025-09-05. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/3140/13/132001.Mean Radiant Temperature Sensing: Comparison of Methods for a Non-uniform Radiant Floor Heating
2025. CLIMA 2025 15th REHVA HVAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, 2025-06-04 – 2025-06-06. p. 753 – 761. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-032-06806-4_72.Indoor climate challenges and potential health consequences in buildings primarily targeting energy efficiency
2025. CISBAT 2025 Built Environment in Transition, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-09-03 – 2025-09-05. p. 122009. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/3140/12/122009.Building legislation vs. performance in Switzerland: Navigating trade-offs between energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality
2025. CISBAT 2025 Built Environment in Transition, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-09-03 – 2025-09-05. p. 062008. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/3140/6/062008.Beyond skin temperature: Body heat generation and dissipation as predictors for local thermal sensation
2025. CISBAT 2025 Built Environment in Transition, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-09-03 – 2025-09-05. p. 072008. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/3140/7/072008.Metabolic variation without movement: The role of cognitive load
2025. CISBAT 2025 Built Environment in Transition, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-09-03 – 2025-09-05. p. 072007. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/3140/7/072007.Low-Temperature Radiant Cooling and its Effect on the Local Indoor Thermal Environment
2025. 9th International Building Physics Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2024-07-25 – 2024-07-27. p. 104 – 109. DOI : 10.1007/978-981-97-8313-7_16.Modular Radiant Floor Heating and its Effect on Local Thermal Comfort
2025. 9th International Building Physics Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2024-07-25 – 2024-07-27. p. 110 – 116. DOI : 10.1007/978-981-97-8313-7_17.Reviews
Personalized Environmental Control Systems (PECS): Systematic review of benefits for thermal comfort, air quality, health, and human performance
Building and Environment. 2025. Vol. 286, p. 113541. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.113541.Personalized environmental control systems (PECS): A systematic review of performance evaluation methods for thermal comfort, air quality and energy
Building and Environment. 2025. Vol. 284, p. 113471. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.113471.Do women feel colder by nature? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of sex differences in physiological and subjective thermal responses
Building and Environment. 2025. Vol. 277, p. 112936. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.112936.Posters
Environmental Impact of Building Technical Installations: Comparative Study Using Swiss and French Databases and Real Case Studies
ENAC Research Day 2025, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-09-08.Talks
Human-Centric Sensing Parameters for Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort in Office Environment
IEQ 2025: Rising to new challenges: Connecting IEQ to a sustainable future, Montreal, 2025-09-24 – 2025-09-26.2024
Journal Articles
Reframing ‘Primitive Huts’ from Structural to Environmental Techniques and Their New Interrelationship in the Machine Age
Buildings. 2024. Vol. 14, num. 12, p. 4072. DOI : 10.3390/buildings14124072.Conference Papers
Harnessing Traditional Living Experience to Foster Resilience in Modern Living
2024. Confort at the Extremes (CATE 2024), Sevilla, 2024-11-20 – 2024-11-22.Multidomain typology of environmentally vulnerable neighbourhoods for enhanced mitigation strategies
2024. Confort at the Extremes (CATE 2024), Sevilla, 2024-11-20 – 2024-11-22.Student Projects
Predicting existing building energy behavior with a data-driven model
2024.Effect of vernacular climatic strategies on comfort and energy
2024.Localized radiant heating and cooling impact on thermal comfort and energy use – Experimental climatic chamber study
2024.2023
Journal Articles
Toward contactless human thermal monitoring: A framework for Machine Learning-based human thermo-physiology modeling augmented with computer vision
Building and Environment. 2023. Vol. 245, num. 110850. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110850.Dynamic personalized human body energy expenditure: Prediction using time series forecasting LSTM models
Biomedical Signal Processing And Control. 2023. Vol. 87, p. 105381. DOI : 10.1016/j.bspc.2023.105381.Behavioral adaptations to cold environments: A comparative study of active nomadic and modern sedentary lifestyles
Building And Environment. 2023. Vol. 243, p. 110664. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110664.Modeling local thermal responses of individuals: Validation of advanced human thermo-physiology models
Building And Environment. 2023. Vol. 243, p. 110667. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110667.DeepValve: Development and experimental testing of a Reinforcement Learning control framework for occupant-centric heating in offices
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 2023. Vol. 123, p. 106310. DOI : 10.1016/j.engappai.2023.106310.Energy, SBS symptoms, and productivity in Swiss open-space offices: Economic evaluation of standard, actual, and optimum scenarios
Building And Environment. 2023. Vol. 242, p. 110565. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110565.Thermoregulation of Tuvan pastoralists and Western Europeans during cold exposure
American Journal Of Human Biology. 2023. DOI : 10.1002/ajhb.23933.Experimental study of the hydrodynamic and thermal performances of ventilated wall structures
Building and Environment. 2023. Vol. 233, p. 110114. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110114.Prefabricated thermally-activated fiber-polymer composite building slab P-TACS: Toward the multifunctional and pre-fabricated structural elements in buildings
Journal Of Building Physics. 2023. DOI : 10.1177/17442591221150257.Resolving indoor shortwave and longwave human body irradiance variations for mean radiant temperature and local thermal comfort
Energy and Buildings. 2023. Vol. 301, p. 113581. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113581.Conference Papers
Inter- and intra-individual variability in CO2 production and metabolic rate
2023. CISBAT 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13-15, 2023.Impact of Standard versus Tracked-based User Behavior into Energy Simulations of Open-Space Offices
2023. 18th IBPSA Conference on Building Simulation, BS 2023, Shanghai, September 4-6, 2023. p. 500 – 507. DOI : 10.26868/25222708.2023.1198.Human sitting behavior at office work and its effect on metabolic rate under varying thermal exposure
2023. CISBAT 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13-15, 2023.Non-intrusive physiological parameters sensing for personalized human thermal comfort prediction
2023. 18th Healthy Buildings Europe Conference, Aachen, Germany, June 11-14, 2023.Variability of human metabolism: sex, thermal exposure, season, and activity effect
2023. 18th Healthy Buildings Europe Conference, Aachen, Germany, June 11-14, 2023.Validation of human thermo-physiology models for personalized predictions of thermal responses
2023. 18th Healthy Buildings Europe Conference, Aachen, Germany, June 11-14, 2023.Reviews
Dynamic indoor thermal environment using Reinforcement Learning-based controls: Opportunities and challenges
Building and Environment. 2023. Vol. 244, p. 110766. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110766.Thermal Conditions in Indoor Environments: Exploring the Reasoning behind Standard-Based Recommendations
Energies. 2023. Vol. 16, num. 4, p. 1587. DOI : 10.3390/en16041587.Theses
DIET Controller: Dynamic Indoor Environment using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.Student Projects
Building energetics analysis of the rebuiLT project
2023.2022
Journal Articles
A mixed-methods case study on resident thermal comfort and attitude towards peak shifting of space heating
Energy And Buildings. 2022. Vol. 276, p. 112501. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.112501.High daily energy expenditure of Tuvan nomadic pastoralists living in an extreme cold environment
Scientific Reports. 2022. Vol. 12, num. 1, p. 20127. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-022-23975-3.Numerical and experimental study of the dynamic thermal resistance of ventilated air-spaces behind passive and active façades
Building and Environment. 2022. Vol. 225, p. 109616. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109616.Reinforcement Learning for proactive operation of residential energy systems by learning stochastic occupant behavior and fluctuating solar energy: Balancing comfort, hygiene and energy use
Applied Energy. 2022. Vol. 318, p. 119206. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119206.Interindividual variability of human thermoregulation: Toward personalized ergonomics of the indoor thermal environment
Obesity. 2022. DOI : 10.1002/oby.23454.An occupant-centric control framework for balancing comfort, energy use and hygiene in hot water systems: A model-free reinforcement learning approach
Applied Energy. 2022. Vol. 312, p. 118833. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.118833.Measuring the effective thermal resistance of ventilated air-spaces behind common wall assemblies: Theoretical uncertainty analysis and recommendations for the hot box method modifications (ASHRAE 1759-RP)
Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 2022. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 320 – 337. DOI : 10.1080/23744731.2021.2016335.Conference Papers
Dynamics of metabolic rate in male individuals due to the meal and regular office activities
2022. CLIMA 2022 The 14th REHVA HVAC World Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 22-25, 2022. DOI : 10.34641/clima.2022.412.Heat recovery potential from ventilated passive and active facades
2022. CLIMA 2022 The 14th REHVA HVAC World Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2022-05-22 – 2022-05-25. DOI : 10.34641/clima.2022.147.Ray-tracing MRT and human thermophysiology model combination for local discomfort prediction
2022. CLIMA 2022 The 14th REHVA HVAC World Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 22-25, 2022. DOI : 10.34641/clima.2022.371.Impact and comparison of standard-based, stochastic, and tracked user behaviour in open space offices: A Swiss case study
2022. 17th Conference of International-Building-Performance-Simulation-Association (IBPSA), Bruges, BELGIUM, 2021-09-01 – 2021-09-03. p. 3440 – 3447. DOI : 10.26868/25222708.2021.30238.Review of health and well-being aspects in Green Certification Protocols
2022. CLIMA 2022 The 14th REHVA HVAC World Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 22-25, 2022. DOI : 10.34641/clima.2022.322.Local heating and cooling effectiveness – an evaluation method based on calculated local and overall thermal state
2022. CLIMA 2022 The 14th REHVA HVAC World Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 22-25, 2022. DOI : 10.34641/clima.2022.267.Reinforcement learning for occupant-centric operation of residential energy system
2022. CLIMA 2022 The 14th REHVA HVAC World Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 22-25, 2022. DOI : 10.34641/clima.2022.286.Customized Neural Network training to predict the highly imbalanced data of domestic hot water usage
2022. CLIMA 2022 The 14th REHVA HVAC World Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 22-25, 2022. DOI : 10.34641/clima.2022.141.Variation in Indoor Thermal Environmental Parameters in an Open Space Office
2022. CLIMA 2022 The 14th REHVA HVAC World Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 22-25, 2022. DOI : 10.34641/clima.2022.62.Reviews
Quality criteria for multi-domain studies in the indoor environment: Critical review towards research guidelines and recommendations
Building And Environment. 2022. Vol. 226, p. 109719. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109719.Theses
Reinforcement Learning for the occupant-centric operation of building energy systems: Theoretical and experimental investigations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.Impact of the ventilated air-space behind traditional (passive) and BIPV (active) façades on the thermo-hydrodynamic performance of the building wall structures
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.Book Chapters
Resiliency lessons of traditional living in nomadic yurts
Routledge Handbook of Resilient Thermal Comfort; Routledge, 2022.Reaching Thermal Comfort Zone Limits for Resilient Building Operation: A Winter Case Study for Offices
Routledge Handbook of Resilient Thermal Comfort; Routledge, 2022.Talks
Inter-Individual Variability of Human Thermoregulation: Towards Personalized Ergonomics of the Indoor Thermal Environment
RACMEM 2022: Recent Advances & Controversies in Measurements of Energy Metabolism, Quebec, Canada, October 6-9, 2022.Student Projects
Implementation and testing of a smart personalized thermostat with the help of a deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm
2022.Implementation and integration of an evapotranspiration model of vegetation in the Arup microclimate workflow
2022.2021
Journal Articles
Performance of lightweight and heavyweight building walls with naturally ventilated passive and active facades
Energy and Buildings. 2021. Vol. 256, p. 111751. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111751.Optimal design and operation of a building energy hub: A comparison of exergy-based and energy-based optimization in Swiss and Italian case studies
Energy Conversion and Management. 2021. Vol. 242, p. 114316. DOI : 10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114316.Thermal resistance of ventilated air-spaces behind external claddings; definitions and challenges (ASHRAE 1759-RP)
Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 2021. p. 1 – 18. DOI : 10.1080/23744731.2021.1898819.Adaptive hot water production based on Supervised Learning
Sustainable Cities and Society. 2021. Vol. 66, p. 102625. DOI : 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102625.Conference Papers
Exploring easy-implementable adaptation strategies to climate change scenarios of existing office buildings: a case study in the Swiss context
2021. 17th International IBPSA Building Simulation Conference (BS2021), Bruges, Belgium, September 1-3, 2021. p. 729 – 736. DOI : 10.26868/25222708.2021.30221.Towards multifunctional building elements: thermal activation of a composite interior GFRP slab
2021. 8th International Building Physics Conference (IBPC 2021), [Online from] Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-27 August 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2069/1/012125.An adaptive control framework based on Reinforcement learning to balance energy, comfort and hygiene in heat pump water heating systems
2021. International Hybrid Conference on Carbon Neutral Cities – Energy Efficiency and Renewables in the Digital Era (CISBAT), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Sep 08-10, 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012006.Environmental preferences of occupants: A multi-domain approach in the Swiss open office case study
2021. CISBAT 2021 Carbon Neutral Cities – Energy Efficiency & Renewables in the Digital Era, Lausanne, Switzerland, 8-10 September 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012131.Transient thermal response of opaque building envelope elements: EPFL campus case study
2021. CISBAT. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012080.Assessment of thermal and electrical performance of BIPV façades using simplified simulations
2021. CISBAT. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012081.Thermal resistance of the ventilated air-spaces behind external claddings; theoretical definition and a parametric study
2021. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2069/1/012197.Dynamic Thermal Performance of the BIPV Facades
2021. ASHRAE Virtual Winter Conference, ELECTR NETWORK, Feb 09-11, 2021. p. 170 – 178.Impact of the Ventilated Cavity on the Thermal Performance of Traditional Wall Structures
2021. ASHRAE Virtual Winter Conference, ELECTR NETWORK, Feb 09-11, 2021. p. 187 – 195.Global Environmental Stimuli and Human-Building Interaction in Open Space Offices: A Swiss Case Study
2021. ASHRAE Virtual Winter Conference, ELECTR NETWORK, Feb 09-11, 2021. p. 434 – 442.In-situ measurements of the U-value of a ventilated wall assembly
2021. 8th International Building Physics Conference (IBPC). DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2069/1/012212.Reviews
The Role of Occupants in Buildings’ Energy Performance Gap: Myth or Reality?
Sustainability. 2021. Vol. 13, num. 6, p. 3146. DOI : 10.3390/su13063146.Review on ventilation rates in the ventilated air-spaces behind common wall assemblies with external cladding
Building and Environment. 2021. Vol. 190, p. 107538. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107538.Reports
eCOMBINE – Interaction between energy use, COMfort, Behaviour, and INdoor Environment in Office Buildings
2021
Talks
Performance of traditional nomadic yurts for living in extremes
The Arctic Science Summit Week 2021, Portugal (online), 19-26 March 2020.Student Projects
Optimized design of a fiber-reinforced polymer multifunctional radiant slab
2021.2020
Journal Articles
Short-term energy use prediction of solar-assisted water heating system: Application case of combined attention-based LSTM and time-series decomposition
Solar Energy. 2020. Vol. 207, p. 626 – 639. DOI : 10.1016/j.solener.2020.07.008.Conference Papers
Investigation of perceived air quality, occupants’ behaviour and air pollutant levels in two open-space office buildings in Switzerland
2020. The 16th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate (INDOOR AIR 2020), [Virtual event], November 1-5, 2020.Triggers behind human-building interactions from a user perspective: results and effectiveness of capturing motivations in real-time
2020. BEHAVE 2020 6th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 21-23, 2020.Reviews
An international review of occupant -related aspects of building energy codes and standards
Building And Environment. 2020. Vol. 179, p. 106906. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.106906.Review of multi-domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour
Building And Environment. 2020. Vol. 176, p. 106804. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.106804.Critical review of standards for indoor thermal environment and air quality
Energy And Buildings. 2020. Vol. 213, p. 109819. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.109819.Reports
Impact of air-flow on thermal performance of air-spaces behind cladding (ASHRAE 1759-TRP)
2020
Student Projects
Fiber-reinforced polymer composite slab with embedded radiant system for building construction
2020.Effects of a Building Integrated Photovoltaic system on the thermal performances of a ventilated building envelope
2020.Radiant cooling systems coupled with active air movement
2020.2019
Journal Articles
Combined desiccant-ejector cooling system assisted by Organic Rankine Cycle for zero-power cooling and dehumidification
Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2019. Vol. 1343, p. 012099. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012099.Which sensor type at which location should offices with south orientated window choose to improve comfort and reduce energy consumption?
Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2019. Vol. 1343, p. 012147. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012147.Conference Papers
Hybrid GEOTABS: System Concept, Individual Modules and Interfaces
2019. ASHRAE 2019 Winter Conference, Atlanta, USA, January, 2019.Water-energy nexus approach to compare performance of evaporative and vapor-compression cooling systems
2019. International Conference on Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation (ICREDG 2019), Teheran, Iran, June 11-12, 2019.Student Projects
A Water-Energy Nexus approach for Integrated Design and Operation of Water and Energy Systems in Buildings
2019.2018
Journal Articles
Heat flux variation between neighboring channels in compact minichannel heat exchangers
Applied Thermal Engineering. 2018. Vol. 135, p. 418 – 434. DOI : 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2018.02.079.Conference Papers
Development of a field measurement methodology for studying the thermal indoor environment in hybrid GEOTABS buildings
2018. REHVA Annual Meeting Conference – Low Carbon Technologies in HVAC, Brussels, Belgium, April, 2018.Experimental comparison of the thermal indoor environment created by a radiant, and a combined radiant and convective cooling system
2018. Roomvent & Ventilation 2018, Espoo, Finland, June 2-5, 2018. p. 223 – 228.Reports
Performance evaluation of radiant and convective cooling/heating systems & Survey on HVAC related potential research themes for office buildings
2018