Giulia Torriani

Giulia Torriani
PhD Student
Institute for Renewable Energy
About
Topics
- Healthy and comfortable indoor environments
- Energy efficient comfort
- Thermal comfort for children
- Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
- Smellscape
- Perceived and effective control
- Occupant-building interaction logics
- Personal Environmental Control Systems (PECS)
- Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE)
Giulia Torriani (F) graduated cum laude in Building Engineering and Architecture from the University of Pisa in 2022. She joined the Institute for Renewable Energy at Eurac Research (Bolzano, Italy) in May 2022 as a Junior Researcher. Since October 2023, she is a PhD candidate at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering (DICAM) at the University of Trento (Italy), collaborating with the Institute for Renewable Energy at Eurac Research (Bolzano, Italy) and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento (Italy). Her doctoral research, titled “From Neutrality to Dynamic and Multisensory Variability in Office Buildings: Rethinking Air Quality Comfort through Indoor Smellscape Modelling”, explores innovative approaches to indoor air quality (IAQ) design and management. Other areas of her research interest include children's comfort, post-occupancy building evaluations, Personal Environmental Control Systems (PECS), and occupant-building interaction logics, with a particular focus on the effective and perceived control of technologies.