About us.

EValTech is the Research and Development Division of Valeri Engineering and Management Srl.
While Valeri Engineering and Management is a consolidated international firm and building operation company aimed at energy efficiency, EValTech is specifically focussed on Innovation Exploitation through tailored regulatory frameworks, human-centric building design, and communication efforts, all with a research-oriented approach.

We're Here for You.​

We help private companies and public institutions toward energy efficiency actions and environmental sustainability. EValTech also boosts any R&D and clean-tech idea toward its exploitation through effective, targeted communication. We develop awareness campaigns, innovative and inclusive marketing actions, and key stakeholder engagement at local, national and international level. 

Our Team.

Benedetta Pioppi.​
R&D
​Managing Director​

Benedetta has 7 years of research experience in national and international projects, also during her PhD in Energy and Sustainable Development. She has worked in several European Projects on building energy efficiency, energy communities, societal awareness of green tech.

Paolo Valeri.​
Co-founder
​Strategist

Paolo has 20 years of experience in the implementation of energy efficiency projects all around the world and he serves as construction site manager from design consultance to the commissioning phase.

Luca Valeri.​
​​Co-founder ​
​Head of the commercial unit

Luca has 20 years of experience in customer care and commercial management. He is the business unit manager for energy solutions, and design projects. He also cooperates to the EValTech strategy management.
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Michele Valeri.​
Co-founder
Technical Manager and Sales Director

Michele has more than 10 years of experience in sales management of energy efficiency plants and electric equipment for the built environment.
He is the expert in lighting retrofit and installation of smart and domotics systems.

Roberto Pugnali.​
Financial Manager​

Roberto is the responsible of the overall administrative and management process of both National and International project. He started cooperating with the company more than 10 years ago, and now he coordinates the whole financial management. 

Katharine Houston.​
​European Project Manager​

Katharine holds an MSc in European Urban Conservation and has more than 10 years' experience in EU Project Coordination and Communications in Civil and Energy Engineering projects. She assists with the management of EValTech's growing EU project portfolio and is Communications Lead on the MuSIC and SONATA projects.

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Toka Frihy.​
MuSIC Project MSCA Doctoral Candidate

Toka is an MSCA Researcher working at EvalTech's Living Lab to test and exploit cutting-edge technologies to boost human comfort, wellbeing, and energy efficiency in indoor environments. She has 8 years of experience in international conference organization, scientific publishing, and managing collaborations with international institutions.

Tommaso Bioli.​
Intern
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Tommaso attended highschool at Liceo Scientifico G. Marconi in Foligno, finishing in 2022. He has just finished his first year of I.T.S Efficenza Energetica and is undertaking an internship at EValTech during which he will be working on BIM projects, energetic analysis and carbon footprint assessment.

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Agnese Chiucchiù.​
PhD candidate in Energy and Sustainable Development

Agnese Chiucchiù is a PhD candidate in Energy and Sustainable Development at University of Perugia, in collaboration with EvalTech, and a member of the EAPLab. She is a member of the SONATA project, and her research project is focused on Multi-domain comfort, particularly applied to workplace. Previously, she obtained a Master's degree in Building Engineering and Architecture at the University of Perugia. She focused her Master's thesis on multi-domain comfort and human-centric comfort building, associating different sensing systems (environmental and physiological).

Parham Esmaeili.​
PhD candidate in Energy and Sustainable Development

Parham Esmaeili is a PhD student focusing on advanced materials for comfort in buildings. Although he has an architectural background with an MSc in Architecture for Sustainability from Politecnico di Torino, He has a wide experience on innovative materials and building components evaluations, from material characterization in lab to simulating their application to building prototypes.