**About the Editors**

**Ferdinando Salata** was born in Rome in 1977, and is currently a researcher at the Department of Astronautical Engineering, Electrical and Energy (DIAEE) for the Scientific Sector ING-IND/11, at the University of Rome "Sapienza" (Italy) (according to the Italian university). He earned his degree in mechanical engineering, specialising in energy, at the University of Rome "Sapienza" in 2003, and went on to complete his PhD in "Technical Physic" in 2007 at the same university. For his thesis, he studied the use of ultraviolet radiation, coupled with HEPA filtration, for the disinfection of biological airborne contaminants in air conditioning systems. After completing his PhD, Ferdinando accepted a research grant from the Department where he completed his thesis. During this period, Ferdinando was named "Expert in the field" for the Scientific Sector ING-IND/11, at the Faculties of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the University of Rome "Sapienza". In 2017, he completed his national academic qualification (required for becoming an associate professor) at the "Ministry of University and Research". That same year, he joined DIAEE as an assistant professor. He is a member of the National Association of Italian Technical Physics. In recent years, he has studied CHP systems; the energy demand optimization of buildings; the energy and reliability optimization of conditioning and lighting systems; natural ventilation in buildings; desalination through absorption machines; urban microclimate and outdoor thermal comfort; thermal conductivity in soils. He has the role of docent (at Faculty of Architecture of University of Rome "Sapienza") for the course "Environmental Applied Physics" and teaching assistant (at Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of University of Rome "Sapienza") for the courses: "Applied Physics" for Electrical Engineering, "Environmental Applied Physics" for Building Engineering—Architecture. He taught a course on "Energy certification of buildings" on behalf of the Lazio Region and on behalf of the Kyoto Club Italia. He is, and has been, the tutor or co-tutor of several MSc thesis dissertations at his faculty. He is a member of the Academic Board of the Ph.D. in Energy and Environment at DIAEE and a member of the International Advisory Board for the *Thermal Science Journal, Journal of Daylighting, Atmosphere Journal, Sustainable Cities and Society Journal*.

**Iacopo Golasi** was born in Rome in 1987 and achieved, in March 2014, his MSc, with honors in mechanical engineering, from the University of "Roma Tre". He completed his doctorate in "Energy and Environment" in the Department of Astronautics, Electrical and Energetics Engineering (DIAEE) at the University of Roma "Sapienza". At present, his interests lie in the development of new empirical outdoor comfort indices able to predict the thermal perception of people in the analysis of the influence of materials' thermo-physical properties on outdoor thermal comfort and buildings' energy demands, in the evaluation of natural ventilation inside buildings (with particular focus on innovative solutions as the solar chimney), in the buildings' energy efficiency assessment, through building a dynamic simulation analysis, also considering the inter-building effect and in the analysis of lighting installations with LED-type light sources (performing an energy, economic and maintenance comparison with traditional installations). He provides consulting services to private and public companies, such as Aeroporti di Roma S.p.A., Lamaro Appalti S.p.A. and ANCI (National Association of Italian Municipalities). He has been the co-tutor of various thesis dissertations, covering different topics related to the subjects of Applied Physics, Thermotechnics, Lighting and Thermodynamics. He is the co-author of more than 40 papers published in international peer review journals or presented at conferences.
