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Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies

Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies

Researchers & Students

CZEBS members have expertise in the following areas: HVAC Systems, Energy Efficiency, Low Energy Buildings, Building Envelope Performance, Solar Energy, Thermal Storage, Advanced Daylighting, Building File Safety, Wind Engineering, Wind-Building Interaction and Thermal Comfort.

Many of the members listed below have collaborated in the Centre for Building Studies, in the NSERC Solar Buildings Strategic Research Network (SBRN) and its successful successor network – the NSERC Smart Net-zero Energy Buildings Strategic Research Network (SNEBRN).

  • Athienitis, Andreas K
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    (Director, Concordia Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies (EV 15.101))
    Solar Energy Engineering, Energy Efficiency, Renewable energy, energy efficiency. Integrated photovoltaics/solar energy utilization systems, Modeling, optimization and control of building thermal systems, Heating ventilation air-conditioning (HVAC), Numerical simulation of heat transfer, Thermal performance of the building envelope,
  • Stathopoulos, Theodore (Ted)
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Wind Engineering, Wind effects on buildings & building aerodynamics, Wind environment, Dispersion of pollutants in the urban environment, Computational wind engineering, Codification of wind effects
  • Zmeureanu, Radu Grigore
    Professor, ing., PhD., Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Energy Efficiency, Design and analysis of energy-efficient buildings, Sustainable development concept applied to buildings, Second law analysis of HVAC systems, Optimization of life cycle performance of buildings and HVAC systems, Computer modelling of energy performance of buildings and HVAC systems, Computer modelling of refrigeration systems for ice rinks, Net zero energy houses,
  • Wang, Liangzhu (Leon)
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Building Environment, Forecasting/Hybrid building simulations using weather forecasting models, Building airflow and thermal management, Real-time building simulations
  • Ge, Hua
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    wind-driven rain, hygrothermal performance of building envelopes, advanced building facades, innovative & durable wood-frame construction, low-energy buildings
  • Lee, Bruno
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Building Energy Performance Assessment, Computational Simulation, Integrated Building Design, Energy Efficiency, Robust Performance Systems, Sustainable Design Criteria
  • Candanedo, José Agustín
    Affiliate Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    (Research Scientist, CanmetENERGY-Varennes)
    Predictive control for buildings, development of control-oriented models, modeling complexity in building simulation, control of thermal energy storage, load management in buildings, building-integrated renewables, building-grid interaction
  • Ouf, Mohamed
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    • Occupant Behaviour Modelling In Building Simulations • Building Performance Optimization • Occupant-Centric Building Controls • Data-Mining and Machine Learning for Building Operations • Net-Zero Energy Buildings

Associate members are researchers with expertise in a related specialized area such as Stochastic Risk Analysis, Energy Modeling & Optimization, Energy Storage, Turbulence, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Vortex Dynamics.

  • Caroline Hachem-Vermette
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Net zero energy buildings and neighborhoods, climate resilient neighborhoods and urban areas, advanced building envelope for high rise buildings, renewable energy systems, sustainable developments
  • Ursula Eicker
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Urban energy systems, 3D City modeling, Urban data and simulation platform development, Renewable energies, Zero Carbon Cities, Demand response and flexibility, District and solar heating and cooling networks, sustainable transport
  • Ashutosh Bagchi
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Structural Engineering, Structural dynamics and earthquake Engineering, Rehabilitation and structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure, Reinforced concrete structures, Finite and boundary element methods, Computer aided design and engineering / Information technology
  • Georgios Vatistas
    Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Fluid mechanics; vortex dynamics and flow instabilities; experimental aerodynamics; finite difference in fluid dynamics; lubrication; microgravity fluid mechanics; thermodynamics; haemodynamics; numerical methods.
  • Marius Paraschivoiu
    Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Vice-Provost, Planning and Student Experience
    Computational fluid dynamics; finite element methods for fluid simulations; aerodynamic simulations; wind energy; acoustic simulations; parallel computing; turbulence modeling.
  • Carmela Cucuzzella
    Professor, Design and Computation Arts
    Concordia University Research Chair in Integrated Design And Sustainability for the Built Environment (IDEAS-BE)
    Founding Co-Director, Next Generation Cities Institute
    design studies, sustainability studies, architecture studies, built environment, cities, eco-design, eco-architecture, public space design, architecture competitions, teaching buildings, sustainability assessment tools, complex dynamic systems
  • Annamaria Buonomano
    Affiliate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    (Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Unviersity of Naples Federico II, Italy)
    Modeling, simulation and optimization of innovative building-plant systems, advanced building integrated envelope techniques, net zero energy buildings, renewable energies and innovative HVAC systems, including solar heating and cooling systems, photovoltaic solar thermal systems, polygeneration.

Katherine D’Avignon

Affiliate Assistant Professor,  Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering

katherine.davignon@etsmtl.ca

Assistant Professor, Département de génie de la construction, École de technologie supérieure

 

Michael A . Lacasse  

National Research Council Canada, Construction Research Centre, Director (Acting) Building Envelope and Materials

Michael.Lacasse@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

 Dr. Michael A. Lacasse is a senior research officer in the Construction Research Center of the National Research Council Canada (NRC-CRC) having over 25 years’ experience as a building engineer. His current role within the NRC-CRC is Director 
Name Degree Supervisor(s)
Ahmed Moustafa Marey PhD Dr. Wang
Andrea Petrucci PhD Dr. Athienitis
Anna-Maria Sigounis  MASc Dr. Athienitis
Anthony Maturo PhD Dr. Athienitis
Aya Doma PhD Dr. Ouf
Ayegba Blessing PhD Dr. Athienitis
Bahador Ziaeemehr PhD Dr. Ge and Dr. M. Lacasse
Ben Zegen Reich PhD Dr. Ge
Benyamin Salehpour MASc Dr. Ge
Cheng Chen MASc Dr. Wang and Dr. Shang
Cheng-Chun Lin PhD Dr. Wang
Chetan Aggarwal PhD Dr. Ge
Christine-Anahita Bigtashi PhD Dr. Lee
Clément Asselin PhD Dr. Stathopoulos
Connor Brackley PhD Dr. Ouf
Daniel Baril PhD Dr. Ge and Dr. Athienitis
Dingyang Geng MASc Dr. Wang and Dr. Stathopoulos
Dongxue Zhan PhD Dr. Wang and Dr. Hassan
Eslam Mohamed MASc Dr. Wang and Dr. Athienitis
Felipe Grossi MASc Dr. Ge and Dr. Zmeureanu
Francois Tardy PhD Dr. Lee
Fuad Baba PhD Dr. Ge
Geng Tian PDF Dr. Wang
Gia-Khanh Phi MASc Dr. Athienitis
Hamidreza Karimian PhD Dr. Ouf
Hamidreza Zarrinkafsh MASc Dr. Athienitis
Henry Lu MASc Dr. Ge
Himanshu Sharma MASc Dr. Ge
Iheb Ben Sassi MASc Dr. Ouf and Dr. Athienitis
Jean-Christophe Pelletier-de-Koninck PhD Dr. Athienitis
Jian Li PhD Dr. Lee
Jing Li PhD Dr. Ge and Dr. Zmeureanu
Jiwei Zou PhD Dr. Wang
Justin Tamasauskas PhD Dr. Zmeureanu
Kai Ye MASc Dr. Ge and Dr. Athienitis
Kathryn Kaspar PhD Dr. Ouf and Dr. Eicker
Mahmoud Reza Hamidpour PhD Dr. Athienitis
Masoud Valinejad MASc Dr. Athienitis and Dr. Bagchi
Matin Abtahi PhD Dr. Athienitis
Mohamad Dakour PhD Dr. Tirca and Dr. Stathopoulos
Mohamed Osman PhD Dr. Ouf
Muhammad Zeeshan PhD Dr. Ouf and Dr. Eicker
Murad Aldoum PhD Dr. Stathopoulos
Navid Morovat PDF Dr. Athienitis and Dr. Candanedo
Nima Bonyadi PhD Dr. Lee
Omar Hassan MASc Dr. Wang and Dr. Hassan
Payam Gholamalipour PhD Dr. Ge and Dr. Stathopoulos
Saeed Rayegan PhD Dr. Wang and Dr. Zmeureanu
Sahar Sahyoun PhD Dr. Ge
Sarah Briot-Arthur PhD Dr. Lee
Sepehrdad Tahmasebi MASc Dr. Wang
Seyednavid Pourmousavian PhD Dr. Lee
Shujie Yan PhD Dr. Wang, Dr. Zhai and Dr. Miller
Sina Akhavan Shams PhD Dr. Ge
Somil Yadav PDF Dr. Hachem-Vermette
Tahmineh Sokhansefat PhD Dr. Lee
Theodore Potsis PhD Dr. Stathopoulos
Travis Moore PhD Dr. Wang and Dr. Lacasse
Vahid Nourmohammadi PhD Dr. Athienitis
Valerie Fournier PhD Dr. Lee
Wei Zhou PhD Dr. Wang and Dr. Athienitis
Wenhang Du PhD Dr. Ge
Yearim Yang MASc Dr. Athienitis
Yingzhen Hou PhD Dr. Wang
Yurong Shi PDF Dr. Wang
Zahra Salehi MASc Dr. Wang and Dr. Ge
Zahra Zareie PhD Dr. Ge
Zeinab Khorasani Zadeh MASc Dr. Ouf
Zhe Ouyang   Dr. Ge

    Updated on 2024-07-03.  * Not all entries are update-to-date.

 
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