Bio

Bio

Luis Manuel Palmero Iglesias is a Full Professor who started teaching in 1995 after a professional dedication to architecture and engineering. Since then he has been using his experience in construction for educational purposes. He has an intense curriculum: Technical Architect (1987), Master in Building Pathology, PhD at the Universitat Politècnica de València specialising in Architecture, with the qualification of outstanding Cum Laude and extraordinary thesis prize. This doctorate is recognised as PhD Europeus because part of the research was carried out at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, Italy.

A restless and curious person, he studied for a degree in Fine Arts (2002). He has had strong connections with Italy through teaching and research. In 2018 he obtained the accreditation of University Professor in the national call of the Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca, MIUR.

He is a member of the College of Doctors of the Università degli Studi di Basilicata, Italy, and is a permanent Visiting Professor at the Dipartimento delle Culture Europee e del Mediterraneo, DiCEM of the aforementioned University. Since 1987 he has been a member of the Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores, Arquitectos Técnicos e Ingenieros de Edificación, where he has registered his professional activity, which focuses on project management in different types of areas, whether residential, private or public. For fourteen years he has held different university management positions, as Deputy Director of the Department of Architectural Constructions and as Deputy Director of International Relations, Culture and Alumni of the School of Building Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV).

He was director of the UNESCO Chair University and Heritage of the UPV (autonomous management space for the safeguarding of architectural heritage).

He is a member of ICOMOS Spain, International Council on Monuments and Sites.

He is a consultant for technical projects for the UN, United Nations.

His academic and research work has focused with special interest on building, architectural heritage and its technological aspects. He has participated in the development of tasks on the recovery, rehabilitation and enhancement of existing buildings and the reuse of heritage buildings, taking into account the compatibility of new materials with existing and/or traditional ones. This attraction to cultural heritage led to the study of the architecture of the Modern Movement, its cataloguing and the study of the construction systems used to understand, among other questions, the relationship between design and assignment, its operation and energy response. He has been responsible for different international competitive projects, such as Climate Kic (2014_2015), Marie Curie Horizon 2020 Prometheus, (2018), UPWood, (2020). He is also a member of the Scientific Committee CITE Building Technology Research Centre of the Department of Architectural Constructions of the Universitat Politècnica de València.

In 2015 he founded and edited the Vitruvio_International Journal of Architectural Construction and Sustainability. This is a channel for dissemination at an international scientific level, from where technological and research activities are promoted. It also reinterprets the principles stated by Vitruvius in his book De Architettura (1st century BC), firmitas, utilitas and venustas, according to the needs of the modern world. This publication is positioned in relevant sites of scientific recognition such as, among others, Scopus, a database of bibliographic references and citations of the company Elsevier, peer review and quality web content, Fecyt Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), a public foundation, dependent on the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, or Classe A, the denominator for scientific journals dependent on ANVUR, Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (National Agency for the Valuation of the University and Research System).

He has had a long experience at the international level as a teacher, researcher and member of numerous international scientific committees, publishing an important number of articles, as well as different books related to his teaching and research activity. He has directed several international conferences and workshops and has been responsible for the double degree in Building Engineering with the Politecnico di Milano. He has been a visiting professor in more than twenty countries, including China, USA, Brazil and Russia.

In April 2019 he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the prestigious institution Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, for the merits achieved in the defence and safeguarding, among others, of the architectural heritage of the historic city centre.

He is president for Spain of the Reconnecting With Your Culture_RWYC project, which promotes and works on the incorporation of Cultural Heritage in childhood in accordance with the fundamental principles declared in the 2030 Agenda, Culture and Education.