Polytechnic University of Timisoara | Romania
Prof. Dr. Ioan Sârbu is a professor emeritus and doctoral supervisor in Civil and Building Services Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Timișoara (UPT), Romania. He earned a diploma in civil engineering in 1975 and a PhD in civil engineering in 1993, dedicating more than four decades to academic teaching, research, and leadership at UPT, including nearly 20 years as Head of the Building Services Department and Head of the National Building Equipment Laboratory. His academic activity includes supervision of numerous PhD and MSc students, evaluation of doctoral dissertations, and contributions to national and international academic governance. His research interests cover refrigeration systems, heat pumps, solar energy conversion and storage, thermal comfort and indoor environmental quality, energy efficiency in buildings, water and heat distribution systems, and numerical simulation and optimization in building services engineering. He has authored over 100 indexed documents, with 3,590 citations from 3,305 documents, and an h-index of 21, reflecting sustained international impact. Prof. Sârbu has published extensively in high-impact journals and books with leading publishers and holds patents and software developments. His distinctions include the Henri Coandă Award of the Romanian Academy, multiple international lifetime achievement honors, and recognition among the top 0.5% of researchers worldwide. His career exemplifies lasting contributions to sustainable energy and building services engineering research and education.
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Featured Publications
Thermal Protection Impact Assessment of a Residential House on the Energy Efficiency of the Air-Source Heat Pump Radiant Floor Heating System – Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 2025
Exhaustive Overview of Advances in Integrating Renewable Energy Sources into District Heating Systems – Review Article
Investigation by Monitoring and Numerical Simulation of the Performance of a Ground-Source Heat Pump System with and without Regeneration in Different Configurations and Operating Modes – Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024
Experimentally Investigating and Numerically Simulating the Performances of Various Low-Temperature Hydronic Heating/Cooling Systems Connected to a Vertical Closed-Loop Ground-Coupled Heat Pump – Energy and Buildings, 2023
Optimization of Urban Water Distribution Networks Using Heuristic Methods: An Overview – Review Article