Dr. Diana D'agostino

Diana D’Agostino (Naples, Italy, 1987) is an engineer who graduated cum laude in "Construction Engineering" from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) in 2013, with a thesis on Net Zero Energy Buildings. From 2012 to 2014, she collaborated with an engineering firm, focusing on projects in the energy sector. Between 2015 and 2017, she won three scholarships at the Department of Industrial Engineering (DII) of the same University, within the “I-TOWN” European project: Her research activity focused on the optimization of building-plants systems with respect to energy efficiency and performance of air conditioning systems. Since January 2018, she has been a PhD student in Industrial Engineering at the DII. On the 13th of October 2021, she earned her PhD degree. Since December 2021, she has been a research fellow at the DII. Her main research topics include the use of low-enthalpy geothermal energy sources in air conditioning systems, particularly through earth-to-air heat exchangers and geothermal heat pumps; Nearly, Net or Plus Zero Energy Buildings; energy refurbishment of existing and historical buildings; and systems that use solar renewable energy, such as photovoltaic, concentration photovoltaic, solar thermal and CPV/T (concentrating photovoltaic/thermal).