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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 research scholar jointly associated with the Sustainable Service Systems and Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions research groups of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Program. His research focuses on modeling the energy demand of buildings at regional and global scales, assessing access to decent housing and thermal comfort in the Global South, 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 energy demand modeling, thermal comfort analysis, life cycle assessment (LCA), and policy analysis.

He is currently working on assessing energy demand transformation scenarios for the building sector and developing energy, materials, and greenhouse gas emissions projections as part of the European projects NAVIGATE, SHAPE, and CircEUlar. He is co-lead of the Buildings working group of the international Energy demand changes induced by technological and social innovations (EDITS) project.

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, and was involved in a number of national and European research projects.


Last update: 31 JAN 2023

Publications

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 10.1038/s41560-025-01703-1. (In Press)

Alaux, N., Marton, C., Steinmann, J., Maierhofer, D., Mastrucci, A. , Petrou, D., Potrč Obrecht, T., Ramon, D., Le Den, X., Allacker, K., Passer, A., & Röck, M. (2024). Whole-life greenhouse gas emission reduction and removal strategies for buildings: Impacts and diffusion potentials across EU Member States. Journal of Environmental Management 370 e122915. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122915.

Soergel, B., Rauner, S., Daioglou, V., Weindl, I., Mastrucci, A. , Carrer, F., Kikstra, J. , Ambrósio, G., Aguiar, A.P.D., Baumstark, L., Bodirsky, B.L., Bos, A., Dietrich, J.P., Dirnaichner, A., Doelman, J.C., Hasse, R., Hernandez, A., Hoppe, J., Humpenöder, F., Iacobuţă, G.I., Keppler, D., Koch, J., Luderer, G., Lotze-Campen, H., Pehl, M., Poblete Cazenave, M., Popp, A., Remy, M., van Zeist, W.-J., Cornell, S., Dombrowsky, I., Hertwich, E.G., Schmidt, F., van Ruijven, B. , van Vuuren, D., & Kriegler, E. (2024). Multiple pathways towards sustainable development goals and climate targets. Environmental Research Letters 19 (12) e124009. 10.1088/1748-9326/ad80af.

Chatterjee, S., Mastrucci, A. , Niamir, L. , Ashok, K., Sreenivas, A., Dukkipati, S., Daioglou, V., Edelenbosch, O., Pelz, S., Boza-Kiss, B. , Kumar, P., & Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2024). Balancing energy transition: Assessing decent living standards and future energy demand in the Global South. Energy Research & Social Science e103757. 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103757. (In Press)

Wiedenhofer, D., Streeck, J., Wiese, F., Verdolini, E., Mastrucci, A. , Ju, Y., Boza-Kiss, B. , Min, J. , Norman, J.B., Wieland, H., Bento, N., Godoy León, M.F., Magalar, L., Mayer, A., Gingrich, S., Hayashi, A., Jupesta, J., Ünlü, G. , Niamir, L. , Cao, T., Zanon-Zotin, M., Plank, B., Vélez-Henao, J., Masanet, E., Krey, V. , Akimoto, K., Grubler, A. , van Ruijven, B. , & Pauliuk, S. (2024). Industry Transformations for High Service Provisioning with Lower Energy and Material Demand: A Review of Models and Scenarios. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 10.1146/annurev-environ-110822-044428. (In Press)