Prof Anna Mavrogianni

Research summary

Anna's research interests include climate responsive architecture and urban design; indoor environmental quality and associated health risks; the impact of urban heat islands and climate change on energy use, thermal comfort and health; the adaptation of the built environment to a warming climate; energy efficient retrofit technologies; building performance simulation and optimisation; building stock energy use modelling; fuel poverty; embodied energy and carbon in building construction; sustainable construction materials.

Anna was the academic Principal Investigator in the 'Seasonal Health, Ageing and Resilience in Urban Populations and Environments' (SHARPER) project funded by NERC and the Arup Global Research Challenge, and is currently a Co-Investigator in the NIHR-funded  Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Environmental Change and Health, Theme 2: Sustainable Cities and the ESPRC-funded 'Airport Capacity Consequences Leveraging Aviation Integrated Modelling' (ACCLAIM) project.

In the past, Anna contributed to the following projects:

• 'The development of a Local Urban Climate model and its application to the Intelligent Design of cities' (LUCID) (EPSRC);
• 'Air Pollution and WEather-related Health Impacts: Methodological Study based On spatio-temporally disaggregated Multi-pollutant models for present day and futurE' (AWESOME) (NERC);
• 'Building Supply Chain for Mass Refurbishment of Houses' (Energy Technologies Institute);
• 'Reducing CO₂ Emissions from Local Generation of Energy: Micro-distributed Energy' (Energy Technologies Institute);
• 'Tackling Overheating in Buildings' (Zero Carbon Hub);
• 'Investigation into Overheating in Buildings' (DCLG);

• 'Assessment of the Energiesprong Model' (GLA);

• 'Air PermeAbility | Cities Health Energy' (APACHE) (UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities Grant);
• 'Social (Re)Connection: Choreographing Architectural Gestures in Urban Spaces' (UCL Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing Grant);

• 'Climate Resilience Islington South Project' (CRISP) (DEFRA);

• 'Urban Heat Risk Mapping and 3D Visualisation' (Arup);
• 'Heating and Obesity Trends' (HOT) (UCL Crucible Centre);

• 'Micro-CHP Accelerator' (Carbon Trust).

Teaching summary

Anna is the Deputy Course Director of the new MSc in Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings (launched September 2017) at the Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE) and the module leader for Integrated Building Design for Health, Comfort and Wellbeing. This module introduces the concept of integrated building design (and associated operational aspects) within the context of enhancing health, wellbeing and comfort in buildings. It is also an introduction to the fundamentals of design and operational strategies for addressing the factors which affect health, wellbeing and comfort in buildings. She is also responsible for the optional module Designing Inclusive Places, which introduces the notion of vulnerability and of inclusive design within the context of health and wellbeing in buildings and at the neighbourhood scale, and discusses these notions from the perspective of various people-related factors (e.g. depending on age, health/wellbeing conditions, socioeconomic status and social exclusion, etc.), and within relevant building types.

From 2012 to 2016 Anna acted as the Deputy Course Director for the MSc in Environmental Design and Engineering, where she was module leader for Methods of Environmental Analysis from 2011 to 2016. This multidisciplinary module deals with the principles and practice of building environmental analysis and the methods of assessing the environmental performance of existing and proposed buildings and their attendant services. The module aims to introduce MSc students to the principles, methods and practice of built environment research and the skill set required to complete a research project, as well as to provide practical engagement in research and enhanced critical judgement.

Further to teaching at the MSc level, Anna supervises a number of students at postgraduate level across the Bartlett Faculty. This includes supervision of MSc dissertations for the MSc in Environmental Design and Engineering at IEDE, Year 5 theses for the MArch program at the Bartlett School of Architecture and MRes theses at the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Energy Demand Reduction at the UCL Energy Institute. At doctoral level, she supervises several PhD and EngD students across UCL, at IEDE, the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Energy Demand Reduction and the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisations (VEIV). She is currently also an external supervisor at doctoral level at the University of Reading.

Anna holds a Professional Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education from the Institute of Education, UCL and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Education

Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), ATQ03 - Recognised by the HEA as a Fellow |

University College London

Doctorate, Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy | 2015

University College London

Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2012

University College London

Other higher degree, Master of Science | 2007

National Technical University of Athens

Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), Diploma | 2005

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