Tiziana Susca earned a PhD in Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bari in 2011. Since 2018, she has been a Senior Researcher at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA).  In 2018, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Engineering and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. From 2014 to 2016, Dr. Susca was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin, Germany. From 2013 to 2014, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance and at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) in Berlin, Germany. In 2012-2013, Dr. Susca was a research fellow at ENEA. In 2009-2010, she was a visiting scholar at the Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) at Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, USA. In 2012, her research on climate and urban sustainability received sponsorship from the European Space Agency (ESA) for the International Workshop on Environmental and Alternative Energy at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Greenbelt, USA. In the same year, she received the Young Research Scientist Award at the Urban Environmental Pollution Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on urban climate, urban sustainability, urban heat islands, building energy efficiency, and the built environment.