Rosa Francesca De Masi

Rosa Francesca De Masi is author / co-author of more than 100 publications on national and international journals, presented at national and international conferences, or chapter of handbooks. The following topics are investigated:

• Methodologies for calculating the energy performance indexes, with reference to both the building envelope and active energy systems, according to the European methodologies.
• Development of theoretical tools for the evaluation of thermal behaviors - under single/two-dimensional variable states - of innovative envelope solutions for the reduction of the primary energy requests in buildings.
• Evaluation of energy performances of for historical buildings, historical center, hospitals buildings by means of hourly energy simulations, in order to propose tailored energy-oriented refurbishments.
• Development and validation of numerical methods, aimed at the integration into hourly energy simulation codes, for the solution of two-and three-dimensional thermal bridges.
• Research of simplified methodologies for the evaluation of energy performance of new and existing buildings, in order to transfer data into Geographic Information Systems (GISs), aimed at the development of ‘‘Urban Energy Maps" also with reference to historic centres.
• Analysis of the impact of future climate projections on building energy balance with reference to the prevision of the energy performance before and after the refurbishment for evaluating the resilience to extreme climatic events.
• Design criteria for a residential nZEB in Mediterranean climate with experimental analysis on a real case study for evaluating the integration of renewable energies at short time-step and the performance of innovative plants.
• Experimental investigation and numerical evaluation of innovative materials and solutions for high efficient building in Mediterranean climate as vacuum insulation panels, phase change materials, recycled materials, cool coating materials, living wall packages, green roof, innovative coating for windows and electrochromic technology.
• Life cycle assessment of innovative materials and design configurations of high efficient building.