New collaborators at LIPID

Luisa Pastore (Arch. Engineer) got a PhD in Recovery of Existing Buildings and Innovative Processes in Architecture at the University of Palermo in 2014. She spent the triennium of her doctoral studies between Italy, Brazil and Denmark carrying out a research on design strategies for the improvement of thermal comfort in urban and building retrofit practices. Her Phd thesis “Sustainable Social Housing in Temperate Areas. Italy and Brazil: the use of vegetation as a retrofit strategy” was awarded with the Diploma d’Onore 2014 conferred by AISRe (Italian section of the European Regional Science Association). Since 2009 she has also worked on a research about innovative façade systems for which she was awarded as Innovator Under 35 Italy 2014 by MIT Technology Review Italy and that also led to the launch of a technological Italian startup."

Dr. Jan Wienold, is an expert on visual comfort in working environments (especially on glare, view contact and direction, contrast reduction on VDUs, age and color), with a long-term experience in the design and conduction of user assessments in test rooms as well as in real office spaces. His expertise besides the visual comfort topic ranges from the design for zero energy buildings, application and development of tools for daylight and thermal simulation programs, configuration and evaluation of monitoring systems, development of shading devices, experimental testing and component simulation. He started groundbreaking work for the daylight glare assessments by the development of the Daylight Glare Probability DGP metrics.
He is member of several international committees (CIE TC3-39 Discomfort glare from daylight in buildings, CIE TC 3-47: Climate Based Modelling, CEN TC169 WG11: Daylight in Buildings, DIN FNL6 (daylight)) and is reviewing regularly for journals and conferences.