Guilherme Coelho (GC) is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, NOVA, where he has both teaching and research duties. He is passionate about the world of building physics and its application to solve real time problems, so to improve the functionality of buildings by optimising them, both for current, as well as for future conditions. This is done through producing sustainable climate adaption measures, while ensuring an adequate indoor environmental quality (IEQ) for human use in buildings and preventing building assemblies from deteriorating.
GC completed his PhD in February 2021 at NOVA university in Portugal, where he studied the hygrothermal behaviour of massive and protected historical buildings in Portugal through a complex monitoring campaign and simulation studies. Since then, and until August 2022, GC taught Civil Engineering courses, at both BSc and MSc level, at the Faculty of Engineering of Lusofona University, Portugal. From September 2022 until December 2024, he worked at OsloMet as main researcher for StaticusCare that aimed in developing a more environmentally friendly automated façade system that is integrated into the building’s control systems based on digital twins and IoT sensors to support the current drive to decarbonise the built environment sector.
Email:Â g.coelho@fct.unl.pt