Research

My work sits between thermal and fluid sciences and the practical business of deploying solar energy across real territories. These are the questions it keeps returning to.

Urban solar energy and solar cadastres

Mapping where solar energy can realistically be produced across a whole city or region, and turning that map into something planners can actually use.

Multicriteria decision aiding for solar deployment

Solar potential is only one criterion among many. This work builds the methods that let a city decide which roofs to equip first, and why.

Solar radiation in the urban fabric

Three-dimensional urban geometry makes incident solar radiation vary across many spatial and temporal scales at once. Describing that variability compactly is a hard and useful problem.

Natural convection and ventilated solar envelopes

How air moves, on its own, behind a heated façade — and why the temperature of the outside air is not the boundary condition everyone assumes it is.

Urban climate and photovoltaic performance

A photovoltaic module in a dense, warm city does not behave like the same module on a test bench. Quantifying that gap matters for anyone sizing an urban installation.