Jury & Prize

Chair of the Jury | Professor at TU Delft, managing director of BBA Binnemilieu

Atze Boerstra is part-time professor of Building Services Innovation at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft. He is involved in both research and education related to thermal comfort, IEQ and HVAC technology. He is also managing director of bba binnemilieu, a Dutch consultancy firm specialized in indoor climate and healthy building.

He is REHVA fellow, past-vice-president of REHVA and former member of the TVVL board. He was president of the CLIMA 2022 conference that was held in Rotterdam and nowadays is involved in national and international standardization work.

Full professor at the University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Marcel Schweiker is a full professor leading the Area Healthy Living Spaces lab, which is embedded in the Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine at the University Hospital RWTH Aachen in Germany. He received a degree in Architecture from the University of Kassel in Germany and then spend 4 years at the Tokyo City University in Japan, where he received a PhD in Environmental and Information Sciences in 2010. Until 2020, he was a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and received from there the postdoctoral lecture qualification (habilitation) in 2017. In parallel, he had a temporary professorship for Energy and Technology at the Faculty of Architecture, TU Kaiserslautern in Germany, between 2019 and 2020.

Marcel Schweiker’s research and teaching is at the edge of several disciplines including architecture, engineering, medicine, and psychology. His core interests are in improving our understanding on those indoor environmental conditions promoting well-being and health within the built environment. He was in charge of building the LOBSTER, a unique facility for experimental studies, and is a sub-task leader in two international working groups under the umbrella of the International Energy Agency – Energy in Buildings and Communities program. He is a member of DIN/ISO standardization committees on ergonomics of the physical environment, published numerous research articles and acquired project funding from local, e.g. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, national, e.g. DFG, BMBF, BMWK, and international, e.g. EU, funding sources.

Professor at The University of Oulu

As Professor at The University of Oulu, Finland since 2020, I have developed both education and research in the area of Good Indoor Air and Buildings Health. As Senior Research Associate / Visiting Professor at the University of Tulsa I have participated in studies on IAQ in residential buildings and schools since 2006. As Adjunct Professor at Tampere University I have engaged in research collaboration since 2007. As Senior Researcher at The National Institute for Health and Welfare between 2007 – 2016, I have led research group and coordinated research projects both in Finland in EU. I have Co-Chaired ISES-ISIAQ 2019 joint conference and served as International Scientific Committee member of Indoor Air 2018, 2020 and 2022, and Healthy Buildings Europe 2017 conferences. Further on, I participated in developing World Health Organization (WHO) Tools for monitoring Parma conference commitments in 2010-2015, collaborated with WHO on identification of interventions to reduce health effects from dampness and mold; quantifying the burden of housing-related disease; and development of environmental health information systems to support policy making in 2007-2009. I was awarded a post-doctoral research grant by the Academy of Finland 2005-2008, as well as a Fulbright Research Grant for post-doctoral studies at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago in 2002-2004.

Full professor at the Politecnico di Milano

Marco Imperadori is Chair of Design & Technological Innovation at the School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering. Full professor at the Politecnico di Milano, his research and teaching focus on architecture and construction technologies.

As a recognised academic authority on the innovation of construction processes based on dry assembly techniques, he presents at conventions and conferences worldwide. His work with industry and interests includes high energy-efficient buildings, new methods of conceiving buildings, and general sustainability. He collaborates with Renzo Piano in the course ‘The Art of Building’ at Politecnico di Milano.

Professor at Çankaya University Faculty of Architecture

Since 1998, Gülsu U. Harputlugil has been working as an academic researcher. Recently she is a full time Professor at Çankaya University Faculty of Architecture and responsible of several under-graduate and graduate courses including Architectural Design Studio, Building Science and Construction Systems.

Her scholarly interests cover energy efficient building design, net zero energy/carbon/water buildings, performance evaluation and building simulation. She has a substantial track record in improving the energy performance of buildings, and deep knowledge of performance assessment strategies that may be used in the building process. Since 2010, her research has also explored impact of occupant behavior on energy consumption of dwellings, renovation strategies of current building stock and climate change adaptation strategies for buildings and communities.

Most of her research have been funded/granted by TUBITAK and British Council Newton Fund. She has participated in many national and international research projects as a "senior expert" in the relevant field. From 2020, she is chair of Department of Architecture at Çankaya University. Besides she stands as an executive committee member of IEA EBC TCP (IEA Energy in Buildings and Communities Technology Collaboration Program) and board member of TTMD (Turkish Society of HVAC and Sanitary Engineers). She is also a member of IBPSA (International Building Performance Simulation Association) and corresponding member of Technical Research Committee (TRC) of REHVA. She is married with two children

Professor at TU Eindhoven, REHVA Vice-President

Lada Hensen Centnerová is a research and teaching at the Building Physics and Services unit. Her research focuses on indoor environment quality, especially thermal comfort and indoor air quality and their relation to health and wellbeing.

Lada is also REHVA vice-president and member of TVVL.

Deputy Manager of the CFD Research and Analysis Department at SMAY

Dr. Eng. Joanna Halibart has 12 years of experience in ventilation and fire ventilation. Author of publications in scientific journals including high-scoring journals. Academic activities covered a wide range of subjects, with special attention paid to the subject of air distribution from supply air elements and wind energy. She has participated in many research and development projects. Co-author of products covered by two European industrial designs under the numbers 009032261-0001 and 009032261-0002. Currently Deputy Manager of the CFD Research and Analysis Department at SMAY. In addition to liaising with the scientific bodys, she is responsible for organising, carrying out research and analysing the results of measurements from the testing for ventilation and fire ventilation equipment and systems. Professionally also related to the topics of CFD analysis.