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 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
Pettifor, H., Mastrucci, A. , Wilson, C., van Ruijven, B.. , Agnew, M., & Gallic, T.L. (2023). Endogenous simulation of low-carbon lifestyle change in global climate mitigation pathways. Environmental Research Letters 19 (1) e014016. 10.1088/1748-9326/acf6d6.
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 Leon, M., Magalar, L., Mayer, A., Gingrich, S., Hayashi, A., Jupesta, J., Ünlü, G. , Niamir, L. , Cao, T., Zanon-Zotin, M., Plank, B., Masanet, E., Krey, V. , Akimoto, K., van Ruijven, B. , & Pauliuk, S. (2023). Material Cycles, Industry and Service Provisioning: A Review of Low Energy and Material Demand Modelling and Scenarios. SSRN 10.2139/ssrn.4617908. (Submitted)
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.
Byers, E. , Mastrucci, A. , Werning, M., van Ruijven, B. , Riahi, K. , & Krey, V. (2023). Closing loops - the rapid emulation of climate risks and integration into IAMs. In: Cross-sectoral ISIMIP-PROCLIAS workshop 2023, 5-8 June 2023.