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
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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 modeling (IAM), material flow analysis (MFA), and life cycle assessment (LCA).He is the coordinator of the Sustainable Buildings theme 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: 10 MAR 2026
Publications
Byers, E. , Meng, M., Mastrucci, A. , van Ruijven, B. , & Krey, V. (2024). Flexible emulation of the climate warming cooling feedback to globally assess the maladaptation implications of future air conditioning use. Environmental Research: Energy 1 e035011. 10.1088/2753-3751/ad6f11.
Mastrucci, A. , Guo, F. , Zhong, X., Maczek, F., & van Ruijven, B. (2024). Circular strategies for building sector decarbonization in China: A scenario analysis. Journal of Industrial Ecology 10.1111/jiec.13523.
Creutzig, F., Simoes, S., Leipold, S., Berrill, P., Azevedo, I., Edelenbosch, O., Fishman, T., Haberl, H., Hertwich, E., Krey, V. , Lima, A., Makov, T., Mastrucci, A. , Milojevic-Dupont, N., Nachtigall, F., Pauliuk, S., Silva, M., Verdolini, E., van Vuuren, D., Wagner, F., Wiedenhofer, D., & Wilson, C. (2024). Demand-side strategies key for mitigating material impacts of energy transitions. Nature Climate Change 14 561-572. 10.1038/s41558-024-02016-z.
Joshi, S., Zakeri, B. , Mittal, S., Mastrucci, A. , Holloway, P., Krey, V. , Shukla, P.R., O’Gallachoir, B., & Glynn, J. (2024). Global high-resolution growth projections dataset for rooftop area consistent with the shared socioeconomic pathways, 2020–2050. Scientific Data 11 (1) 10.1038/s41597-024-03378-x.