ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Architect, PhD on the subject of sustainable housing. Lectured at the Schools of Architecture in Aarhus and Copenhagen, worked as practicing architect and as consultant at Danish Center of Urban Ecology. Since 2007 at Aalborg University, now Associate Professor at Create. Researches, publishes and teaches sustainable architecture and architectural history.
Personal links: ORCiD and Scopus
Phone: 9940 9944
E-mail: mlau@create.aau.dk
PROFESSOR - COORDINATOR OF RESEARCH GROUP
Since 20 years+ applied research in Indoor Climate, Building Physics and Energy Efficiency; Collaboration with research, public sector and industry; Current interests: Personal control over indoor climate, Overheating, Sufficiency in indoor climate and Resilience
Personal links: ORCiD, Scopus, ResearchGate and GoogleScholar
Phone: 9940 3627
E-mail: rthe@create.aau.dk
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Trained as an architect. After working as a practitioner for 24 years he changed career to research and teaching and is now leading a research project on how the design of space can influence the body’s stress systems.
Personal links: ORCiD and Scopus
Phone: 9940 7135
E-mail: lbfi@create.aau.dk
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Educational background combining architecture, design-engineering, sensory science, food sociology, and user experiences. This hybrid perspective results in research and teaching interests exploring social sustainability and how the built environment affect human health and wellbeing. As part hereof a specific focus on concepts of embodiment, emotions, empathy, and atmospheres. As well as how research-based knowledge is translated into creative design thinking processes using design ethnographic tools like storytelling, personas, scenarios, and storyboarding. She also teaches architectural history and supervise projects on cultural heritage in both BSc and MSc level.
Personal links: ORCiD, Twitter, Google Scholar, Scopus and ResearchGate
Phone: 9940 7002
E-mail: tdol@create.aau.dk
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Luis Santos is an architect and researcher concerned with creating bridges between architectural practice and research on building performance and simulation, generative design, and indoor environmental quality. He collaborated with several design studios in Lisbon, Portugal, where he was responsible for designing energy-efficient buildings, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
His primary research line investigates new modeling methods for goal-oriented and integrated building design processes based on thermal and daylight simulations. To that end, the research explores new digital approaches to generate effective surrogate building energy and daylight simulation models and heuristics that simplify search procedures in building optimization and analysis, particularly in early-design phases.
Algorithmic and Generative Design are also essential components of Luis’ research. Since 2009, he has collaborated with IST-University of Lisbon in developing interfaces between whole-building energy software and domain-specific programming languages for architectural design. Lately, his research interests have focused on developing tools for visual comfort analysis, quantifying the non-visual effects of daylight on building occupants, assessing view access and quality, and using machine learning techniques to streamline performance-based design methods.
Finally, Luis is also an environmental design consultant and has provided consultancy for different types of projects in Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
Research Interests: Sustainable Design, Performance-based Design, Algorithmic and Generative Design, Integrated Design Processes, Indoor and Outdoor Environmental Quality, High-performance Buildings, Building Performance Optimization.
Personal links: GoogleScholar
Phone: 6196 7462
E-mail: lfds@create.aau.dk
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Primary objective: To study how architectural design ’solutions’ and design ‘problem’ processes can be investigated in co-evolution through developing adaptive robotic fabrication processes that interactively respond to human and material behaviour. Specific thematic interests: Data-driven and performance-based architecture with a specific focus on the potential of adaptive robotics and how these can influence creative cognitive design processes. This is being explored through development of both computational design algorithms and physical demonstrators.
Personal links: ORCiD, Scopus and ResearchGate
Phone: 2364 6930
E-mail: mbje@create.aau.dk
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Christiane Berger contributes to international research on occupant-centric building design and operation, for instance in the framework of the IEA-EBC Annex 79. Her research interests are in the areas of building performance simulation, building physics, indoor-environmental quality, human-building interaction, and performance-based architectural design.
Personal links: Scopus and ResearchGate
Phone: 9940 7947
E-mail: chbe@create.aau.dk
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
Architect (cand.polyt.), currently a postdoc at CREATE. Research includes the integration of embodied cognitive neuroscience with phenomenology, predictive processing and active inference. Zak mainly operates through electroencephalography for brain imaging and virtual reality for environmental immersion in addressing how affordances of the space neurophysiological balances. Such estimations require statical (Bayes optimal) models of the brain.
TL;DR: Zak tries to understand how the brain is affected by the built environment through a combination of affordances, EEG-VR and statistical models of the brain.
Personal links: ORCiD, Twitter, Scopus, ResearchGate, and personal webpage.
Phone: 2871 5556
E-mail: zadj@create.aau.dk
PH.D. FELLOW
Primary Objective: Developing and Expanding Tectonic design theory into radically ecological directions by way of interdisciplinarity. Alongside, it is equally crucial to develop normative design methods while also providing more general elaboration of methodology of the tectonic approach to architecture and design.
The current research is dealing with linking tectonic theory to MFA-methodology and Ecological Design (forestry) – supported by the philosophy of phenomenology – to develop a new or different building culture with a new and radical approach to materials, along their use and consumption, without sidelining spatial and phenomenological qualities.
Personal links: Scopus
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E-mail: kust@create.aau.dk
PH.D. FELLOW
Avishek is presently Ph.D. Fellow at Aalborg University, Denmark at Department of Architecture, Design & Media Technology. As an architect with an affliction towards machines & technology, he deals with human technology relationships in architecture. This entails incorporating robotic fabrication, augmented and virtual reality and computer vision-based solutions in an architectural design workflow.
Personal links: ORCiD, Scopus and ResearchGate
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E-mail: adas@create.aau.dk
INDUSTRIAL PHD FELLOW
Primary objective: Exploring and investigating the relationship between architectural quality and socio-economic value creation for different stakeholders (users, developers, as well as society as a whole) in the built environment. Specific thematic interests: Describing and valuating architectural quality using tectonics as an overall theoretical framework across the disciplines of architecture, anthropology and economics to support the decision-making process in the architectural design phase, that contributes to the improvement of the design in the future, enabling architects to design with the highest possible added socio-economic value in their practice.
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Phone: 4196 3520
E-mail: essa@create.aau.dk
STUDY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Trained as an Architect-Engineer (cand.polyt.) and Master of Advanced studies in Architecture, Specialization in Computer Aided Architectural Design (MAS ETH ARCH/CAAD) with a special focus on tectonics, timber design and computational design.
Area of interest is in the overlap between architecture and structural engineering, where concepts as tectonics is used to bridge the gap between the two fields from the early conceptual design phase. In terms of structural engineering, the primary focus is timber design. Further, an interest in computational design is used to bridge the gap between architectural design and structural design through development of tools for fast feedback loops between the two design environments.
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E-mail: jtc@create.aau.dk
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Dylan Chau Huynh is an Urban Designer and a research assistant at the department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University. He currently researches in the humans physiological and psychological response to spaces. In addition, does teaching in both bachelor’s and master’s programs at the Architecture & Design education.
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E-mail: dchu@create.aau.dk
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Background in architectural-engineering (cand.polyt) and currently Research Assistant at the department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University. Focused on investigating relations between mind, body, and the built environment through concepts of embodiment and affordances in a situated perspective. Interests expand to include the subjects of architectural history, phenomenology of place and the poetics of tectonic traditions, which are also conveyed through teaching and supervision across both the bachelor’s and master’s programs in Architecture & Design.
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E-mail: acca@create.aau.dk
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Joel P.W. Letkemann is a Canadian architect and educator based in Denmark. After teaching for several years at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Joel completed a PhD there under the title “Elaborate Strategies of Indirection: Science Fictioning in Architectural Education.” Joel’s research interests include science fiction and utopian scholarship and their impetus to sustainable architectural thinking, critical and feminist pedagogies, liberatory practices in architecture, digital culture and practices, and critical theory. After earning a BA(Honours) in English from the University of Winnipeg, Joel earned a professional M.Arch from the University of Manitoba, followed by post-professional Master’s degrees from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and ETH Zürich.
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E-mail: jpwl@create.aau.dk
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Thomas Vang Lindberg is an Architect-Engineer (cand.polyt.) and Research Assistant at the department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University. His area of interest lies in the overlap between architecture and engineering, where concepts as tectonics, indoor environment, and computational architecture is used to bridge the gap between the two fields. Currently, he works as a supervisor and assistant teacher for first and third semester at the bachelor’s program at the Architecture and Design.
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E-mail: tvl@create.aau.dk