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Dr.
Paula M. Esquivias Fernández
Paula M. Esquivias is a building scientist with a background on Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Master on Architecture and Historical Heritage. She works on the field of sustainable and environmental building design and performance through the assessment and optimization of indoor environmental quality by means of passive and active strategies.
She works as Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Valladolid, Spain, where she is actually researching about optimization of the combined performance of high efficient HVAC systems. She is also Coordinator and Lecturer of the Proper Master on Eco-efficient Refurbishment of Buildings and Neighborhoods of the University of Seville, Spain.
Her main research line is to provide indoor environmental quality, mainly thermal and luminous comfort, in the most efficient and economical way. This has been supported by her participation in several R&D activities at the University of Seville and University of Valladolid, covering aspects such as daylighting and visual comfort, thermal conditioning, thermal systems, renewable systems and passive strategies for thermal comfort.
She were invited as visiting scholar at DeMonfort University, Leicester, UK, during the development of her doctoral thesis to work on the spatio-temporal characteristics of illuminance data from climate-based daylight simulations and non-visual effects of daylighting, supervised by Prof. John Mardaljevic, pioneer and referent in this field. Her research activities during her pre-doctoral period and the quality of her PhD have been recently recognized by the University of Seville, as she has been awarded with the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize.
As humans spend 90% time indoors and facing the energy and climate goals, her objective is to provide human comfort and health integrating and balancing energy efficiency and daylighting in new and existing buildings towards a decarbonized building stock. These interests have been continuously reflected in her research, teach and practice activities, started in 2007, continuously transferring the knowledge generated to society.
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