Giuseppe GalbiatiGiuseppe Galbiati has a Master’s degree in Architecture and Building Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2020). He is currently PhD candidate at EPFL (Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture – prof. Franz Graf) in co-direction with the UCLouvain (LOCI Faculty – prof. Giulia Marino). He has been external collaborator at Mobil’homme Lausanne between 2018 and 2019 and teaching assistant at Politecnico di Milano. Since 2019 he writes for Artribune journal in the section of architecture.
His scientific interests are focused on preservation and thermal retrofitting of the modern and contemporary heritage and on the history of construction techniques of XX-century’s buildings. He started developing these themes in his Master’s thesis project and continuing exploring them in his PhD studies, through international publications and research by design.
Evangelos BeliasEvangelos BELIAS holds an EPFLinnovators fellowship and joined HOBEL as a doctoral assistant on November 1st, 2019. Before, he studied Civil Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and at Ecole Spéciale de Travaux Publics ESTP in Paris as an Erasmus student. During his studies, he focused on buildings' energy performance with a special interest in Phase Change Materials and the improvement of the thermal comfort in buildings.Besides his studies, he worked for two years as a Civil Engineer in the industry. Firstly, he served as Civil-Military Engineer in the Greek Army as part of his military service, where he produced many technical-economic studies and supervised various construction projects. Afterward, he moved to Paris, where he worked at SNCF on the HS2 project and at EDVANCE on the EPR2 construction project.In HOBEL, his main focus is the natural ventilation of buildings and the integration of IoT technologies in the HVAC control systems in order to improve the Indoor Environmental Quality in an energy-efficient way.Alongside his studies, he has always been an active part of school councils and students' unions. The main demands are the improvement of the education system and more funds for research.
