Associate Professor of Building Physics at the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering of the School of Engineering at the University of Pisa
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Born in Orvieto (Terni) in 1970, married, two children, prof. Francesco Leccese graduated in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Building Construction in 1997 at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pisa and in 2002 obtained his PhD in Energy at the Energy Department of the Faculty of Engineering.

During the four-year period 2002-2005 he held two-year post-doctoral research grants, co-financed by the Ministry of University and Research. In 2006 he took up service at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pisa as a full-time University Researcher in the scientific area “Building Physics”, an appointment then confirmed from 2009 and carried out until 2020. Since March 2020 he has been serving as an Associate Professor, in the same scientific area, at the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa.

Institutional assignments

Professor Leccese has performed several institutional duties at the University of Pisa. Since 2006 he has been responsible for the Lighting and Acoustics Laboratory at the School of Engineering. Since 2015 he has been a member of the PhD Programme Board in "Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering" at the University of Pisa. In the period 2016-2020 he was a member of the Scientific Commission of Area 09 "Industrial and Information Engineering". Since 2021 he has been President of the Aggregate Council of the Master's Degree Programmes in "Structural and Building Engineering" and in "Engineering of Civil Infrastructures and Environment". Since 2022 he has been a member of the Council of the School of Engineering.

Scientific and teaching activity

Professor Leccese since 2006 teaches “Building Physics" for the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Civil Environmental and Building Engineering at the University of Pisa. Since 2007, he also teaches “Lighting and Applied Acoustics" for the interclass Master's Degree Programme in Structural and Building Engineering and for the single-cycle Master’s Degree Programme in Building Engineering and Architecture of the University of Pisa.

He regularly carries out national and international research on all the issues related to Environmental Technical Physics, dealing in particular with: thermal performance of opaque and glazed systems of the building envelope, thermal, visual and acoustic comfort in indoor environments, energy performance of buildings and systems, human exposure to physical agents in the workplace, environmental pollution due to anthropic and natural factors.

With reference to the research topics addressed, he has gained extensive experience in the experimental measurement of the main physical-technical parameters in the built environment. He is the author of over 200 publications both as dissemination and scientific papers. Over half of his publications are indexed on the main citation databases. He is co-owner of a national patent relating to an innovative device for the illumination of radio-diagnostic reporting stations.