Adélio M. Rodrigues Gaspar was born in Portugal, in 1967. He is an Associate Professor at University of Coimbra (UC), researcher and member of the board of directors of Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics (ADAI), which is one of the four partner and management institutions of the Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transport and Aeronautics (LAETA) (LA nº 50022). He is a member of the Energy for Sustainability Initiative (EfS)-UC (https://www.uc.pt/en/efs) and of the MIT-Portugal program. He is graduated (1992, 5 years degree) in Mechanical Engineering, MSc (1996) and PhD in Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning (HVAC) and Environment (2004) by the University of Coimbra. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEM) of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra (UC). Since 1995 he taught several courses units of the energy and environment area (HVAC, Refrigeration and Building Systems; Simulation of Energy in Buildings; Energy Management; Energy and Environment; Renewable Energy Systems) of bachelor, Master and Doctoral engineering programs of UC. He first conducted scientific research on climatology, focused on the development of meteorological data for building energy simulation programs and outdoor human thermal stress evaluation, which was the theme of his master thesis. The research for his PhD thesis was focused on the experimental assessment of detailed human heat exchanges and thermal comfort in indoor thermal environments considering local heating systems. His current research activities are related to the sustainable built environment, namely the use of new, more sustainable and resilient buildings technologies and energy systems. As a result of his research, he published 71 papers in scientific journals and over 100 papers at international conferences, presently with a Scopus h-index of 24. He co-supervised 6 PhD and about 100 MSc theses concluded. Presently, He is co-supervising 4 PhD thesis. He was PI of 7 national research projects, team member of 16 national and international projects, and of several contracts with industry. Presently He is PI of 1 international and 1 national research projects. He is a certified experts and trainer of the Portuguese building energy certification system. He was Member of the Executive commission for the revision of the Portuguese regulation for Energy Certification of commercial buildings (RSECE) (2010-2012). He participated in several consultancy works undertaken at the UC and in ADAI. He is senior member and expert in HVAC of the Portuguese Association of Professional Engineers. He is an elected member of the AHSRAE Portugal Chapter, participating as Membership Promotion Chair and Student Activities Chair.