The candidate must hold a MSc in an energy engineering, civil engineering, building engineering or architecture. During the BSc and MSc, he/she should have passed different building physics exams (at least two), demonstrating knowledge of basic and advanced building physics and building performance, indoor environmental quality aspects (such as thermal and visual comfort).The candidate should have proven experience with building performance simulation tools (i.E. Energyplus, Radiance etc.), and with scripting and programming in Python and/or Matlab. It is highly appreciated experience of experimental work and building physics measurements.The candidate should have experience with MS Office package (mastering Excel), with CAD and some experience with 3D BIM software (i.E. REVIT). The candidate should have excellent English language skills, analytical skills, and most importantly curious, independent, and proactive.

The PhD student will be integrated into a multi-disciplinary building physics research group TEBE at the Department of Energy, of about 50 members, focusing on aspects from energy use and production in buildings and communities, to different aspects of indoor/outdoor environmental quality (thermal, visual, acoustic, indoor air quality). The integration in such an environment will strongly facilitate the candidate in understanding both vertical and horizontal aspects of its PhD project, developing collaborations and providing great opportunity for growth and cross-fertilization. Within this larger group, the PhD student will work on a daily basis in the research unit related to building envelopes.In the last 10 years the TEBE research group has managed about 20 EU funded projects, the Building Envelope (BE) research unit can claim a specific expertise and know-how on smart and multifunctional façade systems, embedding smart materials, building performance assessment as far as all the aspects related to thermophysics, acoustics and lighting and to energy optimisation in a LCC perspective, are concerned. As a plus, to the guidance and knowledge sharing, the student can benefit from the international academic contacts, industrial contacts and experience on real world application developed by the group in the framework of the several EU and national projects on such topics.Last but not least, the BE research unit benefit of numerous experimental facilities for materials and building envelope systems properties and performance characterization, as well as outdoor test facilities for real world implementation, enabling models validation and calibration, full scale performance characterization and real world demonstration.