Completed PhD Thesis at LIPID
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Giorgia Chinazzo (LIPID) completed her PhD Thesis focusing on the effect of interactions between visual and thermal factors on people’s comfort and physiological responses, challenging the assumption that people perceive and react to individual indoor stimuli, independently from other stimuli.
To address the previous challenge, Giorgia has conducted experiments with more than 500 participants, involving over 750 hours of experimental testing addressing the comfort of people subject to different visual and thermal factors in indoor environments with the presence of daylight. The aforementioned activities have leveraged multidisciplinary competences across the fields of Building Science, Physiology, Psychology, Energy, and Data Analysis.
The PhD thesis entitled «Daylight and temperature in buildings: interaction effects on human responses", was defended on February 14, 2019 in front of a jury composed of Marilyne Andersen (LIPID) thesis director, Jan Wienold (LIPID) co-director, Michel Bierlaire (TRANSP-OR) jury president, B. W. Olesen (Technical University of Denmark|DTU), external examiner, Kevin Houser (Oregon State University) external examiner, Jan Carmeliet (ETH Zurich) external examiner.
Accepted without reservation, the thesis was then presented to the public on March 15, 2019.