Prof. Francesco Martellotta

Since April 2012, he has been an Associate Professor at Fisica Tecnica Ambientale (SSD. ING-IND/11), Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Politecnico di Bari. His scientific interests include sustainable energy use in buildings; development, optimization, and physical characterization of building materials made of recycled wastes; thermal comfort in air-conditioned and free-running buildings; assessment of acoustic, thermal, and visual comfort conditions in indoor environment; objective and subjective aspects of architectural acoustics, with a special focus on places of worship and theatres (including sound field characterization and visualization using advanced measurement techniques, theoretical models of sound propagation, acoustic modelling techniques, characterization of acoustic properties of materials, and psychoacoustic assessment of perceived quality through listening tests); characterization of subjective reaction to noise in offices and correlations with objective descriptors. He has contributed to secure and manage several funding opportunities within public competitive financing programs. He is the author/co-author of more than 100 scientific papers, nearly half of them published in peer-reviewed journals, and three books, including “Worship, acoustics, and architecture”, summarizing several years of research on church acoustics. He is serving as Associate Editor and Guest Editor of several International Journals.