Associate Professor, Architecture, College of Design

Dipl.-Ing. in Architecture at the Technical University Berlin, 1990

Registered Architect in Germany since 1993

Member of the BDA Berlin 2005-2010

International Associate The American Institute of Architects (AIA)

Past-President of the Society for Building Science Educators

Director to the ISU Center for Building Energy Research

My compass for research is the Passage du Nord-Ouest as taken by Michel Serres to describe the passage between the humanities and science.

Relationship of Free-flow open space, Air flow and Energy.
Integrated design and building energy performance evaluation.
Materiality and construction, energy efficiency, sustainability in a critical cultural context. Energy efficiency in existing, retrofit and new buildings. The intertwining of culture, climate and nature in the work of Alvar Aalto.

Building Science Plank leader in the Iowa NSF EPSCOR project (2011-2016): Harnessing Energies from the biosphere.

Principal Investigator of the ISU PIIR (presidential initiative for interdisciplinary research) project: Big Data for Sustainable Cities Decision Making

https://sustainablecities.cber.iastate.edu/