Miss Soukayna Berrabah defended, on the 17th February 2023 at 3pm, her PhD thesis entitled “Towards A Quadrupole-based Hardware-In-the-Loop Co-simulation Platform in Energy Efficient Buildings”. Soukayna’s thesis work was conducted under the supervision of Mrs Bouhssine (UIR), M. El Maakoul (UIR), M. Degiovani and M. Bakhouya (UIR). Soukayna spent almost 3 years (2020-2022) working on the project HOLSYS “A Holistic IoT and Big Data Platform for Smart Building Energy Management Systems”, which is funded by IRESEN under the Green INNO-PROJECT 2018 Call (2020-2023).