PhD Candidate at NOVA University of Lisbon
Pedro Palma holds a MSc. degree in environmental engineering, environmental systems engineering profile, from the NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon. He has been a researcher at CENSE since 2017, developing research work on buildings energy modelling, building renovation cost-effectiveness analysis, energy poverty vulnerability metrics, and climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies.
He has participated in national and European projects such as Intermunicipal Plans for Climate Change Adaptation of Portuguese regions Alentejo Central and Oeste; the National Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality 2050 of Portugal; the project LIGAR! Energy Efficiency for All!, about the identification of energy poverty hotspots for local action in Portugal; the project Ponto de Transição, which implemented and is currently running a physical one-stop-shop for energy poverty mitigation; the Climate-KIC project SUSHI - Sustainable Historic City Districts; the Menu de Renovação Verde, which developed a digital one-stop-shop for home renovation; the IEA's UsersTCP Task on Hard-to-reach Energy Users; and the project EPAH - Energy Poverty Advisory Hub.
Pedro is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the doctoral program Environment and Sustainability at the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research (CENSE), of the same school and university, exploring building energy performance and energy poverty measurements across spatial and temporal scales.
"The multidimensional problem of Energy Poverty and the importance of acting on a local scale" in REDITEIA magazine [2021]
(Dis)United Kingdom? Potential for a common approach to energy poverty assessment [2020]
Mapping the energy performance gap of dwelling stock at high-resolution scale: Implications for thermal comfort in Portuguese households [2019]
Energy poverty vulnerability index: A multidimensional tool to identify hotspots for local action [2019]
PIAAC OESTE - Intermunicipal Plan for Climate Change Adaptation in Oeste region, Portugal [2018-2019]
Oeste PIAAC is an action plan to face climate change for the inter municipal region of OESTE in Portugal. In this sense, it contains risk mapping for the main climate vulnerabilities and adaptation measures, taking into account a vision of the future for the region it covers. For this to be possible, stakeholders and decision makers will be involved throughout the process of drawing up the Plan, in a logic of participation and knowledge sharing.15th edition of EXPO FCT NOVA
WEBINAR - Launch of the 2nd #EPAHcall for local governments to request technical assistance on energy poverty
2nd OPEN CALL for technical assistance to tackle energy poverty
Our EPAH 2nd online course is launched
Happy Energy 4 All project presented in Mértola
Rodrigo Trovão presents his master's thesis - Assessing Energy Poverty in the European Union Islands