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…
Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering Nan (Nancy) Ma, Ph.D., Assoc. AIA, is an Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering at CEAE. Her work investigates the integration of architectural, environmental, and computational knowledge to advance healthy, sustainable, and occupant-centric buildings. In pursuing this objective, her research applies multi-disciplinary simulation, experimental, and field study approaches using both objective and subjective measures. Specifically, her…
