Alicia Van der Stighelen is passionate about the sustainable transformation of the construction and energy sector, focusing on adaptive reuse of the existing built environment and cleantech implementation. Alicia holds a Master of Environmental Building Design (MEBD) from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MSc in Civil Engineering-Architecture from KU Leuven. During her first Master’s, she went on exchange to…
Qi Zhang is presently a Ph.D. candidate in Architecture at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), Tongji University, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Environment Building & Design (CEBD), University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on advancing thermodynamic and ecological architecture, in low-energy and high-performance buildings. She is involved in the project“Study on IntegratedDesign of Low-Energy…
