New PhD students at LIPID
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Giorgia Chinazzo and Kynthia Chamilothori joined the LIPID team on Monday February 2nd 2015. Giorgia is registered at the doctoral school EDCE Civil and Environmental Engineering and Kynthia at the doctoral school EDAR Architecture & Sciences of the City.
Giorgia graduated cum laude from the double degree program between Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano (Italy) with a Master’s degree in Building Engineering. She developed her thesis “Refurbishment of Existing Envelopes in Residential Buildings: assessing robust solutions for future climate change“ during her stay at LIPID. Giorgia’s doctoral research will be dealing with the interaction between thermal and visual comfort in building. In particular, how visual parameters such as the outside illuminance and luminance, the view to the exterior and the amount of daylight influence the inside thermal appraisal of occupants and vice versa.
Kynthia graduated with honors from the Technical University of Crete (Greece) with a Master's degree in Architectural Engineering, receiving the Limmat Stiftung Excellence Award for her academic performance. Her research diploma project, "Memorigami", a prototype temperature-responsive shading system integrating shape memory alloys, was presented in international conferences and received an innovation development grant from the 2013 University Student Entrepreneurship Project (UNISTEP). Her doctoral research will focus on the relationship between spatial contrast, daylight variability and view in regard to occupant preference and perception, aiming to broaden our understanding of the complex effects of daylight variability in subjective experience.