Alessio Mastrucci

Research Scholar

Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group

Energy, Climate, and Environment

Research Scholar

Sustainable Service Systems Research Group

Energy, Climate, and Environment

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

Lutz, W. & Pachauri, S. (2023). Systems Analysis for Sustainable Wellbeing. 50 years of IIASA research, 40 years after the Brundtland Commission, contributing to the post-2030 Global Agenda. IIASA Report. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 10.5281/zenodo.8214208.

Eker, S. , Mastrucci, A. , Pachauri, S. , & van Ruijven, B. (2023). Social media data shed light on air-conditioning interest of heat-vulnerable regions and sociodemographic groups. One Earth 6 (4) 428-440. 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.03.011.

Mastrucci, A. & van Ruijven, B. (2023). Global residential scenarios towards low energy and material demands. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1196 (1) e012008. 10.1088/1755-1315/1196/1/012008.

Vinca, A. , Awais, M. , Mastrucci, A. , van Ruijven, B. , Riahi, K. , Byers, E. , Frank, S. , Satoh, Y., & Krey, V. (2022). Interaction of Mitigation vs Adaptation Pathways with Environmental Boundaries, Natural Hazards, and Sustainability Objectives Across the Energy, Water and Land Sectors. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2022, December 2022.

Mastrucci, A. , Byers, E. , Pachauri, S. , Rao, N. , & van Ruijven, B. (2022). Global scenarios of access to basic residential cooling and adaptation to heat stress. In: Systems Analysis for Reducing Footprints and Enhancing Resilience, 16-17 November, 2022, Vienna, Austria.