The Center for Environmental Building and Design is a faculty research unit at the School of Design dedicated to improving the environmental future of contemporary buildings and cities.
Faculty – Weitzman School of Design
Dr. William W. Braham, Architecture
Dr. Franca Trubiano, Architecture
Dr. Dorit Aviv, Architecture, Thermal Architecture Lab
Dr. Masoud Akbarzadeh, Architecture, Polyhedral Structures Lab
Research Associates (full time)
Dr. Alex Waegel
Visiting Scholars
MiaoMiao Hou, PhD Candidate, Tongjie University, China
Qi Zhang, PhD Candidate, Tongjie University, China
Research Associates (part-time)
Dishanka Kennan, MSD-EBD
Laura Frances, MCP
Ali Hashem, MSD-EBD
Hemant Diyalini, MSD-EBD
Hardi Shah, MEBD
Affiliated PhD students
Evan Oskierko-Jeznacki, Architecture
Max Hakkarainen, Architecture
Anwar Basunbul, Architecture
Zherui Wang, Architecture
Faculty Collaborators – Weitzman School of Design
Dr. Masoud Akbarzadeh, Architecture
Prof. Robert Stuart-Smith, Architecture
Dr. Frank Matero, Historic Preservation
Prof. Michael Henry, Historic Preservation
Mark Alan Hughes, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Megan Ryerson, City Planning
Nick Pevsner, Landscape and Regional Planning
Ellen Neises, Penn Praxis/LARP
External Collaborators
Billie Faircloth, Kieran Timberlake Architects
Stephanie Carlisle, Carbon Leadership Forum
Ryan Welch, Kieran Timberlake Architects
Badruun Gardi, Ger Hub, Ulaanbaatar, Monglia
Faculty Collaborators – Penn
Dr. Mark Yim, MEAM GRASP SEAS
Dr. Rahul Mangharam, ESE SEAS
Dr. Barry Silverman, ESE SEAS
Dr. Shu Yang, MSE CBE SEAS
Dr. Randall Kamien, Physics, SAS
Dr. Eugenie Birch, CPLN, Penn IUR
Noam Lior, Professor, MEAM
Liang Feng, Professor, Material Science, MEAM
Paulo Arratia, Professor, MEAM
Peter Psaras, Assistant Professor, MEAM
Ottman Tertuliano, Assistant Professor, MEAM
Steve Kimbrough, Professor, OPIM, Wharton
Nina Morris, Director, University of Pennsylvania, Sustainability Office, FRES
External Faculty Collaborators
Dr. Lin Xue Li, Tongji University, China
Dr. Jae Lee Min, Ulsan University, South Korea
Prof. Dan Willis, Architecture, Penn State University
Dr. Dave Tilley, Environmental Eng, U Maryland
Dr. Ravi Srinivasan, Construction, U Florida
Dr. Forrest Meggers, Architecture/Andlinger Center, Princeton
Prof. Kiel Moe, Architecture, McGill University
Dr. Tom Abel, Anthropology, Tzu Chi, Taiwan
Dr. Yun Kyu Yi, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Dr. Hwang Yi, Ajou University, Korea
Alethia Ida, Associate Professor, University of Arizona
Zheng O’Neil, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Mohammad Bolhassani, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, The City College New York City
Joseph Robert Yost, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova University
David Salas-de la Cruz, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, RutgersPierre-Thomas Brun, Assistant Professor, Molecular & Cellular Bioscience, Princeton University
Xiao Hu, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Rowan University
Jae Min Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Ulsan, Korea
Linxue Li, Professor and Dean, Tongji University
Holly Samuelson, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Jay Turner, Professor, Energy, Environment, & Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Munkhbayar Buyan, Building Energy Efficiency Center, Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Mongolia
Affiliations
Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Center for Architectural Conservation
Center for Analyzing Evolved Structures as Optimized Products (AESOP)
Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL)
Former Research Associates
Thamer AlSalem (MSD-EBD)
Alicia Nicola Kat Van der Stighelen (MEBD), BSA
Allen Suwardi (MSD-EBD), Perkins & Will
Namita Kara (MSD-EBD), Atelier Ten
Navaz Bilimoria (MSD-EBD), Kirksey Architecture
Vidya Unnikrishnan (MSD-EBD), Grosvenor
Weijie Li (MSD-EBD)
Shibei Huang (MSD-EBD), RWDI
Yaning Yuan, MSD-EBD,
Suryakiran Prabhakaran (MSD-EBD), KieranTimberlake
Former PhD students
Nan Ma, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Ayodh Kamath, Jindal School of Art and Architecture (JSAA)
Pengyuan Shen, 哈尔滨工业大学（深圳）建筑学院 | School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)
Hwang Yi, Department of Architecture, Ajou University, Korea
Jae Min Lee, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea
Yun Kyu Yi, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
Ravi Srinivasan, Rinker School, University of Florida