Marco Molinari

Marco Molinari is a Researcher at the Department of Energy Technology within the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He has been actively contributing to building energy research since completing his PhD at KTH in 2012, with previous postdoctoral experience at the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, KTH Department of Automatic Control (2013-2016).

Dr. Molinari's research focuses on smart buildings and the integration of Information and Communication Technologies in the built environment. His expertise spans energy monitoring systems, advanced control approaches for building systems, and passive techniques for low energy buildings. He has made significant contributions to exergy analysis in building systems and has been instrumental in developing the KTH Live-In Lab as a research platform.

His recent publications demonstrate strong activity in digital twin applications for buildings, occupant-centric control systems, and energy efficiency analysis. The research trends show increasing focus on human-building interaction, cybersecurity aspects of smart buildings, and data-driven approaches to building control and optimization.

Molinari actively participates in multiple research initiatives including the KTH Live-In Lab, Center Dig-It Lab, Digital Futures, and the Digitalized Industry working group. He has contributed to international projects such as the International Energy Agency ECBCS Annex 49 and serves on the editorial board of the International Review of Applied Sciences and Engineering.

As an educator, he teaches courses in AI applications for sustainable energy engineering, heat pumping technologies, and sustainable building design. His supervision has focused on theses related to low energy buildings design, energy management, and building controls.