Matteo Favero

Nationality: IT

EPFL ENAC IIC ETHOS
HBL 1 3B (Halle Bleue)
Passage du Cardinal 13b
1700 Fribourg

EPFL ENAC IIC ETHOS
HBL 1 3B (Halle Bleue)
Passage du Cardinal 13b
1700 Fribourg

Expertise

Dynamic thermal comfort, occupant behaviour, thermal flexibility, built environment, building physics,
building performance simulation, multilevel modelling, statistical thinking.
Matteo Favero is a PostDoctoral Researcher at the école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is a member of the ETHOS Lab: Engineering and Technology for Human-Oriented Sustainability. The ETHOS Lab is an interdisciplinary research group focused on using data-driven and computational tools to create interventions in the built environment that advance our social and environmental sustainability goals. He completed his PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in October 2022, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Before enrolling in the PhD program, Matteo received an 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.