bossa RESEARCHERS
The University of Sydney:
Professor Richard de Dear
Professor de Dear is currently Head of the Architectural Science Discipline at the University of Sydney and Director of the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Laboratory. His main area of expertise lies within Indoor Environmental Quality, including human thermal comfort, field and laboratory studies, and thermal comfort standards.
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Dr Christhina Candido
Dr Candido is an architect by training and holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and in Environmental Science from Macquarie University (Australia). Her research expertise relates to Indoor Environmental Quality, including human thermal comfort, field and laboratory studies, Post-Occupancy Evaluation and thermal comfort standards.
Mr Jungsoo Kim
Mr Kim received his BS in Architectural Engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul in 2002 and MBEnv in Sustainable Development from UNSW, Sydney in 2007. Prior to joining the IEQ Lab, he worked for the Korean Institute of Construction Technology, where he worked on green building rating schemes, thermal performance of building components, and zero-energy housing. Currently, his PhD project focuses on the relationship between the performance of IEQ factors and occupant satisfaction in office buildings.
Mr Thomas Parkinson
Parkinson’s PhD project is focused on perception of transient thermal environments. This notion of pleasurable thermal dynamics is at odds with “accepted comfort wisdom” embedded in current international comfort standards and design guides that classify them as sources of discomfort. This project is using the IEQ Lab and advanced physiological monitoring systems. It is exploring the potential of alliesthesia as a ‘new’ comfort paradigm, and introduces thermal pleasure as a metric thermal environments.
University of Technology, Sydney:
A/Professor Leena Thomas
Associate Professor Thomas heads the Environmental Studies strand at the School of Architecture at UTS. Thomas focuses her research on interrogating and transforming contemporary design practices to be responsive to global concerns for climate change, zero carbon development and high quality living/work environments. In a departure from the prevailing technological focus on low-energy architecture that may often neglect the social/qualitative dimension of building development and operation, she has pioneered the use of detailed post-occupancy evaluation to develop a rich narrative of building performance through the contextual analysis of design process, design attributes and building management in tandem with metrics for energy and occupant satisfaction.
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