Alessandra Luna Navarro is an Assistant Professor in the Architectural Façades and Products Research Group at TU Delft, where her research focuses on human-building interaction to advance climate resilience, resource efficiency, human well-being, and health.  

Her interdisciplinary research integrates architecture, energy, and behavioral sciences, focusing on innovative building systems and façade design. She leads MATELab and SMARTLab at TU Delft, where she supervises PhD candidates conducting experiments in building design and controls. She is currently involved in the Horizon Europe funded project Smarteestory and Multicare.

She collaborates with regional energy policy makers, the EBC Annex activities at the International Energy Agency (Annex 87, Annex 95) and CIBSE (TM68) in linking evidence and innovation to policy. 

Recently she was visiting scholar at UC Berkeley (funded by the Blanceflor fellowship) and Politecnico di Milano to work on heat resilience, and she was awarded with the Best Young Researcher Award at the 9^thInternational Building Physics conference.

She is committed to outreach initiatives of citizen science and communication with general audience to engage communities in climate action initiatives. Currently, she is also leading the OpenFace Erasmus+ project for Open Education in Façade Design and Engineering.

She is a chartered civil engineer in Italy and building services engineer in UK (MCIBSE). In her professional activity, she has been working in wide range of different buildings and facades, from modern flagship buildings such as “La Nuvola” (Rome) to the refurbishment of the historical buildings of the Quirinale in Rome.

She has a Masters’ degree in Building Engineering and Architecture from La Sapienza University of Rome and an MPhil in Energy Technologies from the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. She has also obtained a PhD from the University of Cambridge by researching occupant-centred design and operation of facades. Her research was awarded with the Future Cities Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and funded by Arup, Permasteelisa and EPSRC.