Guglielmina Mutani

Associate Professor
Department of Energy (DENERG)

  • Member of Interdepartmental Center R3C - Responsible Risk Resilience Centre

Profile

Research interests

Building energy performance
Data driven building energy modeling
Energy community
Energy performance certificate for buildings
Energy planning at territorial scale
Nearly zero energy buildings
Nearly zero energy district
Place-based building energy model
Process driven building energy modeling
Renewable energy sources

Biography

Guglielmina Mutani is graduated Civil Engineer (1993), PhD in Energetics (1997), Assistant Professor (1999) and Associate Professor (2022) in Building Physics and Energy Systems at the Department of Energy at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Her research activity is mainly focused on: energy certification of buildings, energy consumption models for space heating at district and urban scale, analyses of thermal comfort in the external environment, evaluation of renewable energy sources available on the territory and energy communities. The activities carried out mainly refer to national and international research programs; recently she participated in the following projects: EEB - Zero Energy Buildings in Smart Urban District (2014-16) funded by MIUR; ENER.COM (2020-21) "Programma Operativo Regionale Investimenti a favore della crescita e dell'occupazione F.E.S.R. 2014/2020" funded by Regione Piemonte with ACEA PINEROLESE INDUSTRIALE SpA, ENVIRONMENT PARK SpA and SSB Progetti srl; Next Generation We (2022) founded by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo with the municipalities of Scalenghe, Inverso Pinasca, Pragelato, Pomaretto, Vigone, Cantalupa and Torre Pellice. Since 1996 she teaches in the School of Architecture and Urban Studies and Planning at Politecnico di Torino about the disciplines of Building Physics and Energy Systems; since 2017 she is member of Urban and Regional Development Ph.D. Program and since 2019 she is member of the scientific committee of the Responsible Risk Resilience Centre (R3C) at Politecnico di Torino.

Scientific branch

ING-IND/11 - BUILDING PHYSICS AND BUILDING ENERGY SYSTEMS
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)

Skills

ERC sectors

PE8_6 - Energy processes engineering
SH7_10 - GIS, spatial analysis; big data in geographical studies
PE8_11 - Sustainable design (for recycling, for environment, eco-design)

SDG

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Goal 13: Climate action

Editorial boards

  • ENERGY EFFICIENCY (2023-), Guest Editor of magazine or editorial series
  • JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABILITY FOR ENERGY (2022-), Associate Editor of magazine or editorial series
  • INSTRUMENTATION MESURE MÉTROLOGIE (2022-), Editor of magazine, editorial series, encyclopaedia
  • SUSTAINABILITY (2021-2022), Guest Editor of magazine or editorial series
  • INSTRUMENTATION MESURE MÉTROLOGIE (2015-2021), Editorial board member
  • TECNICA ITALIANA (2015-), Editorial board member
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Conferences

  • IEEE 7th International Conference AND Workshop in Óbuda on Electrical and Power Engineering (17/10/2024-18/10/2024), Program committee
  • 9th AIGE/IIETA International Conference and the 19th AIGE 2024 Conference (3/6/2024-5/6/2024), Program committee
  • IEEE 6th International Conference AND Workshop in Óbuda on Electrical and Power Engineering (19/10/2023-20/10/2023), Program committee
  • 12TH CONSTRUCTAL LAW CONFERENCE (21/9/2023-22/9/2023), Participation to the organizing committee
  • 8th AIGE-IIETA International Conference and the 18th AIGE Conference on "Energy Conversion, Management, Recovery, Saving, Storage and Renewable Systems" (14/6/2023-15/6/2023), Program chair
  • IEEE 5th International Conference AND workshop in Óbuda on Electrical and Power Engineering (CANDO EPE 2022) (21/11/2022-22/11/2022), Program committee
  • 7th AIGE/IIETA International Conference and 16th AIGE 2022 Conference on "Energy Conversion, Management, Recovery, Saving, Storage and Renewable Systems", Program committee
  • IEEE International Conference and Workshop in Óbuda on Electrical and Power Engineering (2021), Program committee
  • 6th AIGE/IIETA International Conference and 15th AIGE 2021 Conference on "Energy Conversion, Management, Recovery, Saving, Storage and Renewable Systems", Program committee
  • IEEE International Conference and Workshop in Óbuda on Electrical and Power Engineering (2020), Program committee
  • 5th AIGE/IIETA International Conference and 14th AIGE 2020 Conference on "Energy Conversion, Management, Recovery, Saving, Storage and Renewable Systems, Program committee
  • IEEE International Conference and Workshop in Óbuda on Electrical and Power Engineering (2019), Program committee
  • IEEE International Conference and Workshop in Óbuda on Electrical and Power Engineering (2018), Program committee
  • 40th IEEE International Telecommunications Energy Conference (2018), Participation to the organizing committee
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Other titles

  • Premio di Tesi di Laurea (DD 11/11/1997 e pubblicato su BURP n.6 11/2/1998) - Master's Degree Thesis Award (1997-)

Research networks

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2022/2023 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SICUREZZA INDUSTRIALE ED ANALISI DEI RISCHI, 2003/2004 (20. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SICUREZZA INDUSTRIALE ED ANALISI DEI RISCHI, 2002/2003 (19. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
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Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

PhD

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Master of Science

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Bachelor of Science

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Other activities and projects related to teaching

Member of the Degree Course Board in "Pianificazione e Progettazione" at Politecnico di Torino
and member of the PhD programme in Urban and Regional Development

with the following teachings (https://www.denerg.polito.it/personale/scheda/(nominativo)/guglielmina.mutani/(sezione)/didattica):

- Energy Planning of the Built Environment (L-21 in Italian)
- Energy Challenges and Environmental Sustainability (LM-48 in English)
- Energy and Environmental Sustainability (LM-48 in Italian)
- Workshop on Energy Performance Certification of Buildings (LM-4 in Italian)
- Post-carbon sustainable communities (Atelier) – Energy transition and Energy modeling (LM-91 in English)
- II Level University Master "Metodi e tecniche per il governo di territori resilienti. Verso la gestione integrata dei rischi" at Politecnico di Torino (from A.Y. 2020-21, in Italian)

and reference person for the single annual form (scheda unica annuale SUA) for the quality assurance (AQ) of LM-48.

Research

Research projects

Projects funded by commercial contracts

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Supervised PhD students

Other activities and projects related to research

Guglielmina Mutani graduated in Civil Engineer in 1993 at Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and her Master’s degree thesis "Simulation techniques for the diffusion of pollutants in confined environments due to fires" was awarded by the Piedmont Region. In 1997 she achieved the Ph.D. in Energetics, in 1997 and 1998 she was a teacher assistant in Buildings Physics at Politecnico di Torino and won a research grant funded by the Piedmont Region. From 1999 she worked as Assistant Professor and since 2022 she is an Associate Professor of Buildings Physics and Energy Systems at Politecnico di Torino (Italy).

She co-authored about 160 papers published in international journals and proceedings of conferences. 73 papers were indexed in SCOPUS with 738 citations and h-index = 16. She co-authored 10 books and 6 chapters (respectively 2 and 3 in English).

She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal “Instrumentation Mesure Metrologie” (publisher: IIETA) and is in the Editorial Board of “Tecnica Italiana-Italian Journal of Engineering Science” (publisher: IIETA) and “International Journal of Economy, Energy and Environment” (publisher: Science Publishing Group). She was co-Guest Editor of the Journal “Sustainability” (publisher: MDPI) Special Issues: “Models and Tools for Buildings’ Energy-Use Mapping and Planning at Urban Scale”. She has served as a member of the technical programme committee of many international conferences in the field of building energy modelling and renewable technologies. She is authorized to issue Energy Performance Certificates for buildings and is a registered professional engineer.

Her research interests concern energy consumption models at building and urban scale, energy performance certification of buildings, energy savings interventions, renewable energy technologies and indoor/outdoor thermal comfort analyses. She collaborates with researchers from several universities and research institutions.

September 2022

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