Matteo Favero

Nationality: IT

EPFL Smart Living Lab HOBEL
Passage du Cardinal 13b
Case postale 487
1700 Fribourg

EPFL Smart Living Lab HOBEL
Passage du Cardinal 13b
Case postale 487
1700 Fribourg

EPFL Smart Living Lab HOBEL
Passage du Cardinal 13b
Case postale 487
1700 Fribourg

Expertise

Dynamic thermal comfort, Indoor environmental quality, Occupant-centric modelling, Human-building interaction, Multi-domain environmental exposure, Building physics, Building performance simulation, Thermal flexibility, Climate-adaptive buildings, Multilevel modelling, Statistical thinking, Causal thinking, Simulated-data experimentation.



Matteo Favero is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is currently a member of the Human-Oriented Built Environment Lab (HOBEL), which aims to advance knowledge on the interaction between people and buildings by ensuring high indoor environmental quality for occupants while minimising energy consumption. Prior to joining HOBEL, he was a member of the ETHOS Lab (Engineering and Technology for Human-Oriented Sustainability), an interdisciplinary research group focused on leveraging data-driven and computational tools to develop interventions in the built environment that support social and environmental sustainability goals.

He completed his PhD in October 2022 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Before enrolling in the PhD program, Matteo obtained both his MSc and BSc in Building Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Education

PhD

| PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering

2022 – 2022 Norges teknisk naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU)

MSc

| Building Engineering

2015 – 2015 Politecnico di Milano

BSc

| Building Engineering

2012 – 2012 Politecnico di Milano

Awards

2022 Best Paper Awards - Building and Environment

Title: A guideline to document occupant behavior models for advanced building controls.

2022

2022 Best Paper Awards - Building and Environment

Title: Quality criteria for multi-domain studies in the indoor environment: Critical review towards research guidelines and recommendations

2022

Teaching & PhD

Courses

Energy and comfort in buildings

CIVIL-407

The course presents the fundamentals of energy demand in buildings while emphasizing the need for the comfort and well-being of occupants. In addition, prioritizations and trade-offs between energy and comfort are discussed.