Dr. Scognamiglio is a licensed architect, holding a master’s degree in architecture in “Preservation of Architectural Assets” from the University of Naples, with a PhD in “Technologies for Architecture and Environment” from the University of Campania. Since 2000 she is a researcher at the Renewable Energy Technology department of ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) in the photovoltaics and smart networks division. Her main interest lies in the interface between scientific research and design, where she engages in creating a domain of common understanding and experimentations in the real living environment.
Recently, she has been appointed by ENEA as coordinator of the new task force on “Sustainable Agrivoltaics”, establishing a national network of stakeholders from photovoltaics, agriculture, landscape design and environmental organisations. She has been managing several projects related to innovative BIPV and photovoltaics in landscape; including innovative agrivoltaics, and Net Zero Energy Buildings. Her main research topics comprise the use of photovoltaics in buildings and landscapes, where she focusses on trans-disciplinary perspectives like innovative cognitive frameworks creating new design visions.
Being topic organiser of the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (EU PVSEC) since 2008, she serves to coordinate the programme contributions on the use of photovoltaics in buildings and nature. For the EU PVSEC, she is also the creator and chairperson of the event “Photovoltaics, Forms, Landscapes. Beauty and power of designed photovoltaics”, taking place since 2010. On an international level, she serves as the Italian alternate in the Executive Committee of the IEA SHC (Solar Heating and Cooling), and she is also member of the “Integrated PV” task of ETIP (European Technology and Innovation Platform). She maintains her dedication to architecture as a member of the advisory board of the Master in Architecture at the University of Campania.
She continues to lecture and give supervision to postgraduate masters and holds as well training courses for professionals (engineers and architects), organised by national design and architecture associations, professional associations, universities, and by ENEA itself. She authored more than 100 publications in journals, proceedings and books.
She holds two patents on the use of photovoltaics in buildings and landscapes (Boogie-Woogie photovoltaic glass, and PV-LED street lamp Stapelia), and on the trade marks “Algovoltaico” resp. “Algaevoltaics.”
