
Susana Lucas
Susana.lucas@estbarreiro.ips.pt
Project Coordinator, R1 coordinator, Course 1 coordinator, contribute in Courses 1, 3, 4 and 6.
Susana Lucas is the project BUILD2050 coordinator. She is affiliated with the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (IPS) in Portugal. She holds dual PhDs in Chemical and Civil Engineering, with a focus on humane, sustainable, healthy, and regenerative construction.
For any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Cláudio Miguel Sapateiro
Internal Committee coordinator, IPS contact point to R5, contribute in course 5.
Cláudio Miguel Sapateiro, PhD in Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (2013). Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (IPS) since 2001. Currently, coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Software Engineering at the IPS School of Technology in Setúbal.
J`ulia Justino
Co coordinator of Pedagogical Framework
Nelson Carriço
Coordinator of course 3
Nuno Teixeira
Contribute in course 7
Ricardo Salgado
Contribute in course 3
Ricardo Salgado (RS) holds his PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (2011) at NOVA University of Lisbon, a MSc in Ecology (2004) at University of Lisbon, postgraduate in Aquaculture (2017) at Huelva University. Currently, RS is an Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (IPS), coordinates the Environmental and Marine Technology graduation course at IPS since 2016 and he is researcher at LAQV/REQUIMTE, at the University NOVA of Lisbon and CINEA research center, at the IPS.
The most important research areas are related with environmental engineering and biotecnology, biological reactors, biodegradation, biodegradation by-product identification, solid phase microextraction, solid phase extraction, pharmaceutical active compounds, musks, pesticides, photolysis, MP/UVradiation, chlorination, water treatment and wastewater treatment plants and aquaculture production.
Luis Coelho
Contribute in course 2
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Carla A. Gamelas (CG)
Contribute in course 3
Carla A. Gamelas (CG) is a Chemical Engineer by Instituto Superior Técnico, with a PhD in Chemistry by ITQB – Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She holds a post-graduation in Sanitation Engineering by FCT – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she specialized in water and wastewater treatment. CG is a Coordinator Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (IPS), where she coordinates the Higher Technical Course (CTeSP) in Environmental and Food Quality and is responsible for the curricular unit of Water Treatment and Supply of the Environmental and Marine Technology graduation course.
She is a Researcher at CINEA/IPS and Instituto Superior Técnico, where her research is related with environmental engineering and in the last years, she specialized in air quality, with a particular focus on particulate matter chemical characterization and the identification of the contribution of pollution sources by source apportionment techniques, and biomonitoring.
She worked in 7 national research projects and 1 project with a public entity, published 25 papers in ISI peer review journals (h-index 13 with 502 citations) and her work was presented in 41 communications in international conferences.
She supervised 7 and co-supervised 1 MSc thesis and was a reviewer in 7 scientific journals.
Fernando Cunha
Contribute in course 2
Fernando Cunha, Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, teaches subjects on Waste Management and Treatment, Air Quality and Gas Effluent Treatment, Environmental Impact Assessment, Sustainability and Environment in Industry and Buildings.
He develops R&D at PRODUTECH- Pole of Production Technologies, in the study areas of eco-effectiveness, eco-efficiency and circular economy, in a life cycle assessment approach.
He considers his participation in Build2050, specifically in Course 6-Sustainable, Healthy and Regenerative Construction and Course 7-Circular Economy and LCA methodology applied to construction.
Nuno Pereira
Contribute in course 2
Nuno Pereira, Assistant Professor in the scientific area of Applied Thermodynamics, at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. PhD in Mechanical Engineering with work on the Crossflow hydraulic turbine and void fraction and velocity measurement in air–water flows. Teaching in the areas of Fluid Mechanics, Renewable Energy, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration. Technical services in energy audits in buildings. Areas of interest in the BUILD2050 project: “Course 2 – Zero Energy and Positive Energy Buildings towards the full decarbonization” and “Course 3 – Circular water management in Buildings”.
Paulo Fontes
Contribute in course 2GW
Paulo Fontes, Coordinating Professor in the area of Applied Thermodynamics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at ESTSetúbal/IPS. PhD, R&D projects, teaching and technical services in the following areas: combustion, thermal equipment, renewable energies and energy efficiency.
Area of interest of the BUILD2050 project: Course 2 – Zero Energy and Positive Energy Buildings towards the full decarbonization.
Cecilia Mazzoli
Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)
Department of Architecture – University of Bologna
Academic discipline: ICAR/10 Architectural Engineering
Construction Engineer, graduated in Building and Architectural Engineering, PhD in Architecture at the University of Bologna in co-direction with the Université de Paris-Est, with a degree recognized in Italy and France.
Anna Chiara Benedett
Research fellow, Adjunct professor and Teaching tutor
Department of Architecture – University of Bologna
Academic discipline: ICAR/10 Architectural Engineering
Construction engineer graduated in Architecture and Building Engineering from the School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Bologna, and PhD in Architecture and Design Cultures (XXXIV cycle) on “Re-construction for Regeneration” (final exam: June 2022).
Annarita Ferrante
Full Professor
Department of Architecture – University of Bologna
Academic discipline: ICAR/10 Architectural Engineering
Full professor since 2019 and former Associate professor at the University of Bologna since 2014, A.F. carries out her research in the field of sustainable architecture and the criteria for transforming the built heritage according to environmentally sustainable procedures.

Jacopo Famiglietti

Civil Engineer from the University of Pisa. He has worked from almost 10 years in LCA and sustainability field applied to buildings and industrial sectors. He is an expert of LCA modeling and in the development of tools/software and datasets for calculating the environmental impact of products.
Rossano Scoccia

Senior researcher at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He is a building engineer and PhD in energy and nuclear science from Politecnico di Milano. He has worked for more than 15 years in the HVAC and renewable energy sources sectors.
Hashem Amini Toosi

A Ph.D. candidate at the ABC Department and a research fellow at the Energy
Department of Politecnico di Milano. His main research focus is to develop integrated optimization models to implement life cycle sustainability assessment in building and energy retrofit design.
Mohammad Abdollah
mohammadabdollah.abdollah@polimi.it

A Ph.D. candidate at the energy department of Politecnico di Milano. His work focuses on machine learning application in buildings energy application. Within his Ph.D. work he focused on data driven fault detection and diagnostics in the HVAC system in buildings.
Maria K. Koukou
Course 2 Coordinator

Michail Gr. Vrachopoulos

Antonis Livieratos
Course 8 coordinator

Christos Manasis

John Konstantaras

Fani Lavrenti

Freelance Mechanical Engineer; MSc. in Energy B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Technological Institute of Chalkida, Greece); Working experience as Research Assistant in research projects targeting Renewable Energy Sources applications.
Leda Tzannetou
Dimitris Enea Mele
PhD Candidate with the theme “An Intelligent Decision Support System for the monitoring, control and optimization of autonomous power grids”. Currently working as a Senior Automation Lead; Engaged in research projects with the Energy Systems Laboratory of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; research interests include RES microgrids, load and energy forecasting methods, machine learning and AI algorithm`s.
Joanna Aleksiejuk Gawron
Tomasz Bakoń
Tomasz Bakoń, Dr.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering, is an assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW. His scientific background includes renewable energy, energy storage, power engineering, electrical grids, relays & protection systems, metrology (both electrical & non-electrical values), calibration, power quality, and power electronics. He is part of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Fundamentals of Engineering and Energy at SGGW.
Piotr F. Borowski
C4 – Innovative Construction Materials
C7 – Circular Economy and LCA methodology applied to construction
Dr. Piotr F. Borowski is affiliated with the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. His scientific interests include management, strategic management, CO2 emission reduction, green energy, and green materials in the construction sector.