Biography
Luka Pajek has been a teaching assistant and a research fellow at the University of Ljubljana since 2015. In 2012 he finished his Bachelor’s degree in Civil engineering at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering. He continued his studies and received an MSc title and a Prešeren award for students in 2015. In 2022 he obtained the PhD title. His research interests are climate-adapted building design, building energy efficiency with respect to climate change and the thermal response of buildings and their elements.
Besides the mentioned, he is a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering and Faculty of Health Sciences, lecturing on building envelope design, bioclimatic design, daylighting, indoor environment and efficient energy use.
“Being curious as a scientist is like being inspired as an artist – you get addicted to both, the cause and the result.” –Luka Pajek
I invite you to participate in the Special Issue of the Sustainability journal I co-guest edit with dr. Ilaria Pigliautile: Emerging Topics in the Sustainable Built Environment: Climate Change Adaptation, Energy Poverty and Well-Being.
Selected bibliography
PAJEK, Luka, POTOČNIK, Jaka, KOŠIR, Mitja. The effect of a warming climate on the relevance of passive design measures for heating and cooling of European single-family detached buildings. Energy and Buildings 2022, 261: 111947.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.111947
PAJEK, Luka, KOŠIR, Mitja. Strategy for achieving long-term energy efficiency of European single-family buildings through passive climate adaptation. Applied Energy 2021, 297: 117116.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117116
PAJEK, Luka, KOŠIR, Mitja. Implications of present and upcoming changes in bioclimatic potential for energy performance of residential buildings. Building and environment 2018, 127: 157–172.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.10.040
PAJEK, Luka, HUDOBIVNIK, Blaž, KUNIČ, Roman, KOŠIR, Mitja. Improving thermal response of lightweight timber building envelopes during cooling season in three European locations. Journal of cleaner production 2017, 156: 939–952.