Dr. Forrest Meggers is Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture and Andlinger Center for Energy & Environment at Princeton University. He is jointly appointed in the Schools of Architecture and of Engineering, and works in systems integration to facilitate interdisciplinary design teaching and research, building bridges between the often-disconnected fields.
He founded and directs CHAOS (Cooling and Heating for Architecturally Optimized systems) Lab where he and his research team investigate alternative thermal paradigms to engage architecture and maximize performance. He has been awarded funding at Princeton for several "Campus as a Lab" projects and for several technology innovations. He has grants fro NSF, DOE, and ARM, and he collaborates with industry. He has several patents and founded the spinoff Hearth Labs to develop his SMART sensor technology to improve thermostats.
He was previously in Singapore as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Architecture at the National University of Singapore where he had traveled initially as a senior researcher and research module coordinator in the Singapore-ETH Centre’s Future Cities Laboratory. He has degrees from Mechanical Engineering (BSE), Environmental Engineering (MS), and Architecture (Dr sc.). His fields of knowledge include building systems design and integration; sustainable systems; renewable energy; radiant systems, desiccants, exergy analysis; geothermal; seasonal energy storage; building materials; thermodynamics and heat transfer; and heat pumps. He received his PhD in the Dept. of Architecture at the ETH Zurich. He also directed research on sustainable systems for the president of the ETH Board. Originally a native of Iowa, Forrest worked on many sustainability projects at the University of Iowa, and worked with Jim Hansen, renowned climatologist at Columbia University and director of NASA GISS, as a Researcher on US Building Stock CO2 emissions. Through all his international and research experiences he always prides himself as an Iowan and a bicycle mechanic.
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