Personal identification

Full name

Karol Bot

Citation names

• Bot, Karol

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

3B19-9F1C-E2F1

ORCID iD

0000-0001-5904-2166

Knowledge fields

• Engineering and Technology - Environmental Engineering - Petroleum Engineering, Energy and Fuels
• Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Computer Hardware and Architecture
• Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

	Degree	Classification
2020 - 2021/10 Concluded	MBA in Information Systems and Entrepreneurship (Pós-Graduação) Major in Management and entrepreneurship Universidade Lusófona, Portugal	17
2016/09 - 2020/10/09 Concluded	Sustainable Energy Systems (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "DESIGN, TESTING AND MODELLING OF FAÇADE INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado com distinção
2010 - 2015 Concluded	Civil Engineering (Bacharelato) Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Brazil "Modelação Computacional de uma Proposta de Reabilitação Energética de uma Edificação" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15.5 valores
2015 Concluded	Solar Energy Engineering (Mestrado) Universidade de Évora, Portugal "Modelação Computacional e Validação de Soluções Solares Passivas para Melhoria do Conforto Térmico de uma Edificação Pré-Fabricada" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	14 valores

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/12 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2019 - 2021	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2017 - 2019	Research Trainee (Research)	Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia - Campus do Lumiar, Portugal
2017 - 2017	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014/01/15 - 2014/12/15	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Brazil

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019 - 2021/11	Non-Invasive Load Monitoring for Intelligent Home Energy Management -NILMforIHEM 01/SAICT/2018 Research Fellow Universidade do Algarve, Portugal	Ongoing
2017 - 2019	NZEB_LAB LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-022075 Research Fellow Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Portugal
2017 - 2017	HomeZERO POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017840 Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Publications

Book chapter	A. Ruano; K. Bot; M. Graça Ruano. "Home Energy Management System in an Algarve Residence. First Results". 332-341. Springer International Publishing, 2021. 10.1007/978-3-030-58653-9_32 "The Impact of Occupants in Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency in Buildings". 101-137. {BENTHAM, 2021. 10.2174/9781681088327121060006 Bot, Karol. "Forecasting Electricity Consumption in Residential Buildings for Home Energy Management Systems". 313-326. Springer International Publishing, 2020. 10.1007/978-3-030-50146-4_24
Conference paper	Bot, Karol; Aelenei, Laura; Gonçalves, Helder. "Design of a BIPVT prototype and analysis using computational fluid dynamics". 2020. 10.34637/cies2020.2.2140 Bot, Karol. "Proposal for a new isoplet map for the State of Santa Catarina". Paper presented in 57º Congresso Brasileiro de Concreto (IBRACON), Bonito, 2015. Published
Journal article	"A Systematic Review of Applications of Machine Learning Techniques for Wildfire Management Decision Support". Inventions 7 1 (2022): 15-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/inventions7010015. 10.3390/inventions7010015 Karol Bot; Hussein Kazem; Laura Aelenei; Maria da Glória Gomes; Carlos Santos Silva; Marta Szabo; Abdul Salam K. Darwish. "A literature review on Building Integrated Solar Energy Systems (BI-SES) for façades - photovoltaic, thermal and hybrid systems". Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability (2022): https://doi.org/10.1051/rees/2021053. 10.1051/rees/2021053 Karol Bot; Samira Santos; Inoussa Laouali; Antonio Ruano; Maria da Graça Ruano. "Design of Ensemble Forecasting Models for Home Energy Management Systems". Energies 14 22 (2021): 7664-7664. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14227664. 10.3390/en14227664 Karol Bot; Inoussa Laouali; António Ruano; Maria da Graça Ruano. "Home Energy Management Systems with Branch-and-Bound Model-Based Predictive Control Techniques". Energies (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/en14185852. 10.3390/en14185852 Karol Bot; Laura Aelenei; Hélder Gonçalves; Maria da Glória Gomes; Carlos Santos Silva. "Performance Assessment of a Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Thermal System in a Mediterranean Climate—An Experimental Analysis Approach". Energies (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/en14082191. 10.3390/en14082191 Karol Bot; Antonio Ruano; Maria da Graça Ruano. "Short-Term Forecasting Photovoltaic Solar Power for Home Energy Management Systems". Inventions 6 1 (2021): 12-12. https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions6010012. 10.3390/inventions6010012 Bot, Karol. "Performance Assessment of a Building Integrated Photovoltaic Thermal System in Mediterranean Climate—A Numerical Simulation Approach". Energies (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13112887. 10.3390/en13112887 Bot, Karol. "Energy performance of buildings with on-site energy generation and storage – An integrated assessment using dynamic simulation". Journal of Building Engineering (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2019.100769. 10.1016/j.jobe.2019.100769
Thesis / Dissertation	Bot, Karol. "DESIGN, TESTING AND MODELLING OF FAÇADE INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS". PhD, 2020. Bot, Karol. "Computational modeling and validation of passive solar solutions to improve the thermal comfort of a prefabricated building". Master, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/17973.

Award

2020	1º place - Entrepreneurship contest "Play Your Idea" Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2020	1º place - Entrepreneurship contest - Ideias em Caixa