Dr. Gloria Pignatta is a Scientia Senior Lecturer and City Futures Research Centre (CFRC) Fellow in the School of Built Environment (BE), Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, her Master’s degree in Civil Engineering and her Ph.D. in Energy Engineering from the University of Perugia, Italy in 2008, 2011 and 2016, respectively. She then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Inter-University Research Center on Pollution and Environment “Mauro Felli” (CIRIAF), University of Perugia, Italy. In 2017, she was a Postdoctoral Associate and Building and Construction expert at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) in Singapore. She joined UNSW as a Scientia Lecturer in 2018. Dr. Pignatta’s research touches on different fields of research, from engineering to architecture, material science, and urban climate, among other fields, and addresses all of them from the same perspective of sustainable urban development. Her practical and theoretical research in the field of built environment touches on the global problems of climate adaptation and mitigation, but also on social challenges, such as energy inequality. Her research aims to improve the thermal energy, environmental, and acoustic performance of buildings and cities to enhance their liveability through the development and implementation of advanced passive solutions.