Event type:

In person

Date & time:

26 Mar 2024, 12:00 – 13:30

Towards demand flexibility in buildings and improving indoor air quality

Join us for a webinar with Dr Douglas Booker and Flavia de Andrade Pereira.

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Towards demand flexibility in buildings and improving indoor air quality

26 Mar 2024, 12:00 – 13:30

Flavia de Andrade Pereira

Research Fellow in Smart Building Data Models

UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering

Flavia's research focuses on smart buildings, demand flexibility, and information management, with a particular emphasis on semantic web technologies and linked data. Flavia's background is in Electrical Engineering, and she holds an MSc in Smart Systems Integration. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies in Mechanical Engineering, with a thesis on "A Semantics-driven Framework for Scalable Demand Flexibility Control Applications in Buildings". Flavia also has extensive international experience in the energy sector, having worked in the consulting industry and research institutes in Brazil, the US, and Spain.

Dr Douglas Booker

Lecturer in Indoor Air

University of Leeds

Dr Douglas Booker is geographer and entrepreneur, with a focus on indoor air quality and environmental justice. Douglas is a Lecturer in Indoor Air at the University of Leeds in the School of Civil Engineering, and the Co-Founder & CEO of NAQTS, a Lancaster Environment Centre collocated business that develops tools and technologies to provide holistic indoor air quality information. Douglas is also a UKRI Regional Clean Air Champion as part of the SPF Clean Air Programme, where he helps to bring together research across engineering, atmospheric, medical, and social science to develop practical and fair solutions for air quality challenges.

Further information

Ticketing

Pre-booking essential

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Nahid Mohajeri

nahid.mohajeri.09@ucl.ac.uk