Research summary

Gesche is working as a Senior Research Associate at the UCL Energy Institute in the newly established CREDS project (https://www.creds.ac.uk/). As part of her work she is looking at how control over the environment impacts on our thermal comfort and the energy we use. Gesche has previously researched which factors determine gas and electricity consumption in nationally representative samples. She has also worked on the relationship between light and thermal comfort, with the aim of broadening the range of comfortable temperatures. She linked empirically derived heating demand temperatures and duration of heating periods in domestic buildings to socio- and building-demographics, and compared empirical data to assumptions of the BREDEM’ (Building Research Establishment Domestic Energy Model) family of models, and to explore the scope for targeted interventions to reduce domestic energy consumption. 

In her role at IEDE, she will explore the relationship between mental health and buildings and the impact of various environmental parameters on cognitive performance. 

Teaching summary

Gesche regularly gives guest lectures in the MRes and the MSc at the Energy Institute on the usage of experimental methods in energy research. She has also previously taught on energy consumption in non-domestic properties and on behaviour change (BA). In her lecturer post, she will teach on wellbeings in buildings as part of the Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Building MSc. 

Education

University of Giessen

Doctorate, Doctor rerum naturalium | 2010

University of Giessen

First Degree, Diplom | 2007

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