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Dr Sofia – Natalia Boemi is an Environmental Engineer. In 2011, she obtained her PhD titled “Energy and Environmental Management of the Greek Hotel Building Stock”. Since 2013, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She was successfully granted twice postdoctoral scholarships from the Greek (2014-2016) state about energy poverty and energy efficiency and the Portuguese (2013-2014) State about energy efficiency policies in the built environment.
She has a strong R&D background, mainly in building energy efficiency and energy performance, the use of renewables in the built environment, energy poverty and studying indoor environmental quality and thermal comfort.
She has been a freelance mechanical engineer since 2006. Currently, she is collaborating with the European Parliament for the scientific support of an MEP on the portfolios of energy efficiency in the built environment, energy poverty and ecodesign of materials. In parallel, she is the project manager of two national projects with a European Industry of insulation materials about energy efficiency in the built environment and the use of new technologies for logistics. Until 2019, she was an external associate with the Regional Development Fund of Central Macedonia, working on a project about circular economy named “BIOREGIO - Regional circular economy models and best available technologies for biological streams”.
Since 2015 she has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Environmental Engineering, M.Sc. program “Environmental Engineering and Science”, co-teaching mainly the course “Energy and Buildings - Renewable Energy Sources and their applications at buildings and the urban environment”. In the academic year 2020-2021, she was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Environmental Engineering, teaching the postgraduate course “Energy efficiency in the built environment”.
She co-authors 48 papers in refereed journals, edited books, and international conferences. She is the editor of the handbook “Energy Performance of Buildings - Energy Efficiency and Built Environment in Temperate Climates”, published by Springer. She has served as a reviewer for several scientific journals. He has also been involved in more than 20 research projects funded by the E.C. and the greek state. During her involvement in these projects, she was a leader of several W.P.s and a (deputy) project manager.