Francesco Causone

Francesco Causone is an Associate Professor, lecturing Building Physics at the School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. He holds a master degree in Architecture, a PhD in Technical Innovation for the Built Environment and he is a LEED AP. He was awarded the REHVA young scientist award 2012. Prof. Causone has gained world-class industry experience as a Sustainability Researcher at Foster + Partners in London, where he worked on the design and performance assessment of major headquarter buildings in Cupertino and London. He is partner of several European, Italian and Regional research projects focussed on the development of energy and housing services in Smart Cities and Communities. He has been PI of a 3-years project on the monitoring and analysis of energy performance of a zero-energy building in the Mediterranean climate and PI of a 2-years project focused on the measurement and assessment of outdoor comfort and mean radiant temperature (both funded by the National Energy Agency of Italy ENEA).

From 2007 to 2010 he coordinated an integrated design team, for the design of a multi-functional sustainable centre in Italy and he won, in 2018, as environmental expert of the Co-Inventing Doria team, the international call Reinventing Cities promoted by C40, designing a carbon neutral hostel in Milan.

He is author of more than 70 scientific publications and Associate Editor with Sustainable Design and Construction (specialty section of the journal “Frontiers in Built Environment”), he is also part of the Editorial Board of the international journal “Energies” as Topic Editor.

His expertise includes energy and indoor environmental quality assessment in the built environment, and buildings sustainable design. He has been visiting professor at Paris EST, teaching a PhD course about indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort assessment in buildings, and visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, working on adaptive façades. He served as Scientific Director for the congress AEDIFICA, held in Vicenza in 2019.