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ORCID: 0000-0002-1976-4305
Associate Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Pfluger studied Mechanical Engineering at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen and with a focus on energy saving technologies and technical optics at the University of Stuttgart. He then worked for Greenpeace e.V. in Hamburg and Atlantis gGmbH in Berlin in the field of renewable energy. At the University of Stuttgart, he conducted research as part of the EU projects PASSYS, COMPASS and PASLINK as well as in the IEA Task. He then moved to the Passive House Institute in Darmstadt and worked in the area of certification and quality assurance of heat recovery systems, windows and passive houses as well as in European and national research projects. Since 2008, he has been researching and teaching at the University of Innsbruck in the energy-efficient building department in the areas of energy-efficient buildings, building physics, energy-efficient renovation, energy-efficient ventilation, fire protection and renewable energy as well as energy-efficient lighting (daylight and artificial light) and has led the climate protection lecture series since 2019. He habilitated in 2014, leads numerous national and international research projects and works in research collaborations and IEA tasks. The research focus in recent years has been in the area of BIM2BEM and prefabricated renovation. He is a member of the Austrian Standards working group (ON AG 141.27) and a regular member of the scientific advisory board of the International Passive House Conference IPHC. Since 2022 he has headed the Sustainable Building Research Center, which thematically connects the faculties of architecture, technical sciences and computer science.
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