Alessio Mastrucci
Senior Research Scholar
Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Senior Research Scholar
Sustainable Service Systems Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Alessio Mastrucci is a senior research scholar jointly associated with the Sustainable Service Systems and Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions research groups of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program. His research focuses on modeling the energy and material demands of buildings at regional and global scales, assessing access to decent housing and thermal comfort, and developing scenarios for the building sector toward achieving climate and sustainable development goals. His research interests include energy and technology scenarios, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and linkages between energy and human development. His methods include building sector energy modeling, integrated assessment modelling (IAM), material flow analysis (MFA), and life cycle assessment (LCA).He is coordinator of the theme “Sustainable buildings” at IIASA and co-lead of the Buildings working group of the international Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations (EDITS) project. He is involved in several international projects, including the Horizon Europe projects CircEUlar, NEWPATHWAYS, PRISMA, and SPARCCLE.
Mastrucci holds a PhD in Buildings, Architecture, and Structures and a master's degree in Building Engineering and Architecture from Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy. Before joining IIASA in 2016, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universita Politecnica delle Marche and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg.
Last update: 19 FEB 2025
Publications
Kikstra, J. , Daioglou, V., Min, J. , Sferra, F., Soergel, B., Kriegler, E., Lee, H., Mastrucci, A. , Pachauri, S. , Rao, N. , Rauner, S., van Vuuren, D., Riahi, K. , van Ruijven, B. , & Rogelj, J. (2025). Closing decent living gaps in energy and emissions scenarios: introducing DESIRE. Environmental Research Letters 20 (5) e054038. 10.1088/1748-9326/adc3ad.
Mastrucci, A. , Boza-Kiss, B. , & van Ruijven, B. (2025). Towards net-zero emissions in global residential heating and cooling: a global scenario analysis. Climatic Change 178 (4) e85. 10.1007/s10584-025-03923-6.
Gesangyangji, G., Holloway, T., Vimont, D.J., Mastrucci, A. , Byers, E. , & Acker, S.J. (2025). The hours matter: comparing indicators of US residential cooling from hourly versus daily climate variables. Environmental Research Letters 20 (4) e044024. 10.1088/1748-9326/adbd54.
van Heerden, R., Edelenbosch, O.Y., Daioglou, V., Le Gallic, T., Baptista, L.B., Di Bella, A., Colelli, F.P., Emmerling, J., Fragkos, P., Hasse, R., Hoppe, J., Kishimoto, P. , Leblanc, F., Lefèvre, J., Luderer, G., Marangoni, G., Mastrucci, A. , Pettifor, H., Pietzcker, R., Rochedo, P., van Ruijven, B. , Schaeffer, R., Wilson, C. , Yeh, S., Zisarou, E., & van Vuuren, D. (2025). Demand-side policies can significantly reduce emissions from energy use in buildings and transport. Nature Energy 10 293-294. 10.1038/s41560-025-01721-z.
van Heerden, R., Edelenbosch, O.Y., Daioglou, V., Le Gallic, T., Baptista, L.B., Di Bella, A., Colelli, F.P., Emmerling, J., Fragkos, P., Hasse, R., Hoppe, J., Kishimoto, P. , Leblanc, F., Lefèvre, J., Luderer, G., Marangoni, G., Mastrucci, A. , Pettifor, H., Pietzcker, R., Rochedo, P., van Ruijven, B. , Schaeffer, R., Wilson, C. , Yeh, S., Zisarou, E., & van Vuuren, D. (2025). Demand-side strategies enable rapid and deep cuts in buildings and transport emissions to 2050. Nature Energy 10 380-394. 10.1038/s41560-025-01703-1.