Luisa Pastore is an architectural engineer specialized in sustainable architecture, bioclimatic design, and comfort in buildings.

She is a Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and Project Manager of the SWICE (Sustainable Wellbeing for the Individual and the Collectivity in the Energy transition) research project at the Smart Living Lab, EPFL.

She is also an Impact and Sustainability Advisor at Amber Lion Partners (2021-).

She co-founded SBskin-Smart Building Skin (2013), a technological start-up based in Palermo, Italy for the development of innovative and energy-efficient building façade components. With her entrepreneurial idea, she was awarded as Innovator Under 35 Italy 2014 by MIT Technology Review Italy.

Luisa Pastore completed a PhD in Architecture at the University of Palermo (2014), followed by post-doctoral studies at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID), EPFL.

She is currently the Scientific Coordinator of the Holcim Foundation and was minute keeper of the five regional Holcim Awards juries 2020 and the Global Holcim Awards jury of 2021.