Francesco Causone，米兰理工大学副教授，任职于米兰理工大学建筑、城市规划与建造工程学院，主讲应用建筑物理与零碳建筑设计课程。他在该校能源系开展研究工作，并主持城市建筑与能源系统研究实验室。他以优异成绩获得建筑学硕士学位，持有建成环境技术创新专业博士学位，同时也是LEED 绿色建筑认证专业人士。2012 年，他荣获欧洲暖通空调联合会（REHVA）青年科学家奖。

Causone教授曾在伦敦福斯特建筑事务所担任可持续发展研究员，参与库比蒂诺与伦敦多地标性总部大楼的设计及性能评估工作，拥有国际一流的行业实践经验。他参与多项欧盟、意大利国家级及区域性科研项目，研究方向聚焦智慧城市与社区的能源及居住服务体系开发。他曾担任一项为期三年项目的首席研究员，针对地中海气候下零能耗建筑的能耗表现开展监测与分析；同时主持一项为期两年的研究，专注于室外舒适度与平均辐射温度的测算与评估。上述两项研究均由意大利国家能源局资助。

2007 至 2010 年，他统筹一体化设计团队，完成意大利一座多功能可持续中心的设计工作。2018 年，他作为环境领域专家加入 Co-Inventing Doria 设计团队，凭借在米兰设计的一座碳中和青年旅社方案，中标国际组织 C40 发起的 “重塑城市” 全球竞赛。

Causone教授发表学术论文逾百篇，现任 《Frontiers in Built Environment》期刊子刊《可持续设计与建造》副主编，并担任《Energies》 《Building Simulation: an international journal》等国际期刊编委。

他的研究专长涵盖建成环境的能耗与室内环境品质评估、建筑可持续设计。他曾担任巴黎东大学客座教授，讲授建筑室内空气质量（IAQ）与热舒适评估相关博士课程；也曾以访问学者身份赴剑桥大学，开展自适应外立面相关研究。2024 年，他入选中国外国专家项目（项目名称：城市绿地系统微气候调节与碳减排效益研究，项目编号：H20240276），并将于 2025 年 4 月至 6 月在上海同济大学进行访学研究。

自 2015 年起，Francesco Causone研究方向主要集中于城市建筑能耗模拟（UBEM）与城市绿色基础设施（UGI）的建模及评估。他曾主持一项意大利国家级项目，搭建适用于城市建筑能耗模拟与建筑能耗模拟的意大利标准建筑原型数据库。此外，他还与意大利多个市政部门合作，并参与欧盟资助项目，开展可再生能源社区相关研究，而建筑能耗模拟与标准建筑原型正是此类研究的核心基础。

目前，他正与米兰市政府合作，基于 OpenFOAM 开发一套 CFD 数值模拟工具，用于公园、林荫大道等城市绿色基础设施的建模分析，为城市规划者与决策者提供城市植被热效应相关数据，以缓解城市热岛现象、提升居民宜居体验。

Francesco Causone is an Associate Professor, lecturing Applied Building Physics and Zero-carbon Building Design at the School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. His research activity is conducted at the Department of Energy of the same University, where he leads the CRANES Lab (City Research for Architectural aNd Energy Systems). He holds a master degree in Architecture (cum laude), a PhD in Technical Innovation for the Built Environment and he is a LEED AP. He was awarded the REHVA young scientist award 2012. 

Prof. Causone has gained world-class industry experience as a Sustainability Researcher at Foster + Partners in London, where he worked on the design and performance assessment of major headquarter buildings in Cupertino and London. He is partner of several European, Italian and Regional research projects focused on the development of energy and housing services in Smart Cities and Communities. He has been PI of a 3-years project on the monitoring and analysis of energy performance of a zero-energy building in the Mediterranean climate and PI of a 2-years project focused on the measurement and assessment of outdoor comfort and mean radiant temperature (both funded by ENEA, the National Energy Agency of Italy).

From 2007 to 2010 he coordinated an integrated design team, for the design of a multi-functional sustainable centre in Italy and he won, in 2018, as environmental expert of the Co-Inventing Doria team, the international call Reinventing Cities promoted by C40, designing a carbon neutral hostel in Milan.

He is author of more than 100 scientific publications and Associate Editor of Sustainable Design and Construction (specialty section of the journal “Frontiers in Built Environment”), he is also part of the Editorial Board of the international journals “Energies” and “Building Simulation: an international journal”.

His expertise includes energy and indoor environmental quality assessment in the built environment, and buildings sustainable design. He has been visiting professor at Paris EST, teaching a PhD course about indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort assessment in buildings, and visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, working on adaptive façades. He was the recipient of the 2024 Foreign Expert Program (China) – Project title: Research on the Microclimate Regulation and Carbon Emission Reduction Benefit of Urban Green Space Systems (No. H20240276) resulting in a visiting period at Tongji University, Shanghai, from April to June 2025.

Since 2015 Francesco Causone focused his research interests on Urban Building Energy Modelling (UBEM) and Urban Green Infrastructures (UGI) modelling and assessment. In particular, he was the PI of a National funded project (https://www.urbem.polimi.it/en/) focused on the creation of an Italian

database of reference buildings (or archetypes) for UBEM and BEM. He is moreover working with several Italian municipalities and within EU funded projects on the topic of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs), for whom UBEM and reference buildings are an essential basis.

Finally, he is working with the Municipality of Milan, to create a CFD-based tool (in OpenFOAM) to model UGI such as parks, green boulevards, etc. to provide useful information to urban planners and decision makers on the thermal effects of urban vegetation to contrast urban heat island and to increase citizens’well-being.