John Kongoletos

John is a graduate of the Building Technology Program at MIT (PhD '22, SMBT '18) and enjoys tackling challenging problems that require multi-disciplinary approaches.

He received his Bachelor’s degree from Mechanical Engineering at MIT, focusing on high performing buildings and improving pre-construction energy utilization. Upon his return to academia, he brought a background in the evaluation and measurement of energy efficiency technologies.

His research focus with Prof. Leon Glicksman aimed to produce a thermally autonomous low-income home using currently-available technologies and field-proven techniques. He built, instrumented, and reported on the in situ long-term thermal performance of four iterations of these homes located in Bhuj, India.