Michele Rocca is a researcher at the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering of the University of Pisa, where he previously obtained both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Building Engineering. He later completed his PhD there, defending in 2020 his dissertation entitled “Indoor Environmental Quality assessment: study of innovative strategies based on multi-criteria analysis.”
Since 2023, he has been participating as a fixed-term Researcher (RtdA) in the PNRR Extended Partnership project Energy – NEST – “Network 4 Energy Sustainable Transition.” Specifically, his research activity is framed within Spoke 4, “Clean Hydrogen and Final Uses,” coordinated by the University of Genoa and involving, in addition to the University of Pisa, the following partners: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Polytechnic University of Bari (POLIBA), Polytechnic University of Milan (POLIMI), University of Bologna (UNIBO), National Research Council (CNR), Sapienza University of Rome (UNIROMA1), IIT, IREN, SNAM, BAKER HUGHES, ARCO FC, and INTESA SANPAOLO.
In 2022, he took part in the INAIL BRiC Project ID 08/2019, “Development of an advanced monitoring system and related platform for estimating the personal erythemal dose in workers exposed to solar ultraviolet radiation.” The project involved Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Pisa, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), and the Occupational Hygiene Department of INAIL. His research activities focused on the study of solar ultraviolet radiation, the definition of a calculation algorithm for assessing human exposure of outdoor workers under various conditions, and field measurements using portable wearable instruments.
In 2021, he participated in the project “TRIM – Technology and Industrial Research for Marine Mobility,” which involved several institutions and shipbuilding industries or enterprise networks for Advanced Mobility Services, as well as various Italian universities. His research activities specifically concerned the study of acoustic insulation of the internal partitions of yachts and ships.
Since 2014, he has been collaborating with the Lighting and Acoustics Laboratory of the University of Pisa on topics related to indoor environmental quality, artificial lighting for indoor and outdoor environments, photobiological risk from non-coherent sources, sound propagation in indoor workspaces, thermal and acoustic insulation of building envelopes, and the energy performance of buildings.
