DrFederico Tartarini

Dr Tartarini's research lies at the intersection of environmental engineering, building science, and human health. His work focuses on understanding and optimising the interaction between people and their built environments, particularly under conditions of heat stress and climate variability.

His core research interests include:

• Environmental engineering and human thermophysiology: quantifying how indoor climate variables such as temperature, humidity, radiation and air movement interact with human physiology to determine thermal comfort, health, and cognitive performance.
• Occupant centred experimental and computational methods: combining laboratory studies, longitudinal field trials, wearables and IoT sensors with statistical and mechanistic models to personalise comfort predictions and building controls.
• Non-intrusive monitoring and wearable sensing: developing and validating scalable data pipelines using consumer wearables, low cost sensors and physiological signals to infer thermal strain and personal preferences.
• Thermophysiological and comfort modelling: extending, validating and applying PMV, adaptive and SET models, and defining applicability limits for standards.
• HVAC and building performance evaluation: assessing systems using occupant centred metrics to optimise energy use, reduce over cooling and mitigate heat stress.
• Extreme environments and vulnerable populations: investigating athletes, outdoor workers, aged care residents and burn survivors to tailor protection and activity guidance.
• Open source tools and reproducibility: developing and maintaining pythermalcomfort, jsthermalcomfort, HeatWatch, CBE tools and SMA Extreme Heat Tool to enable transparent, reproducible research and practice.
• Integration of models and real time data: merging thermophysiological models with live environmental inputs to support building operations, personalised interventions and policy decisions.