Runa T. Hellwig

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Runa T. Hellwig

Professor, PD (Privatdozent), Habilitation degree, Dr.-Ing. (Doctorate), Architecture, user experience, Post-occupancy evaluation, thermal comfort, Dipl.-Ing. Thesis: Life cycle assessment of pre-fabricated houses

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5882-8033

  • Rendsburggade 14, 6-318A

    9000 Aalborg

    Denmark

1995 …2024

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Research profile

Runa T. Hellwig, Dr., is full professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Runa does research on how people perceive and interact with architectural environments, the transdisciplinary field of human building interaction. By understanding human building interaction, architectural environments can be designed, improved and operated following a human-centred approach addressing at the same time challenges as e.g. overheating in buildings, energy-efficiency or resilience of the built environment. During 25 years of career she has been involved in about 50 applied research projects and services for the building and aviation industry and public authorities. Her research approaches comprise experimental work in laboratories, indoors and under real weather, monitoring as well as post-occupancy surveys. She is appointed member of the Committee of Workplaces consulting the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Her climatic background is humid continental and oceanic climate. She lived also in an equatorial tropical climate.

Teaching profile

Students who are interested to do their PhD thesis or Master's thesis project with me are most welcome to contact me. I offer a variety of topics covered by the following keywords:

- Human Building Interaction
- Personal control over the indoor climate
- Occupant perception and behaviour
- Indoor Climate, Thermal Comfort

- Climate responsive buildings, bioclimatic architecture, passive building technologies
- Building Energy efficiency

- Sustainable strategies in the built environment, especially sufficiency strategies and energy efficiency
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Aspects of occupational health and safety

You may be interested in the following methodologies

- post-occupancy evaluation, working with people
- experimental measurements in testing set-ups
- field measurements and surveys

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action

Education/Academic qualification

Architecture - Building Climatology, PD (Privatdozent, Habilitation), Habilitation Thesis: Zufriedenheit mit dem Raumklima (Satisfaction with the indoor environment), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Sept 2015

Award Date: 24 Sept 2015

Didactic Qualification Programme, Certificate “Hochschullehre Bayern“ (University Teaching Bavaria), Teaching and Learning Concepts, Presentation an Communication, Evaluation, Consulting students

Award Date: 6 May 2013

Architecture - Thermal Comfort, Dr.-Ing. (Doctorate), Doctoral Thesis: Thermische Behaglichkeit - Unterschiede zwischen frei und mechanisch belüfteten Gebäuden aus Nutzersicht (Thermal Comfort - Natural Ventilation versus Air-Conditioning in Office Buildings from the Occupant's Point of View). , Technical University of Munich

Nov 2005

Award Date: 2 Nov 2005

Civil Engineering (Integrated Design, Building Physics), Dipl.-Ing. degree (Master's), Thesis: Life cycle assessment of prefabricated houses, University of Stuttgart

Jul 1995

External positions

Member of the Committee of Workplaces (ASTA) of the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

2019 → …

Visiting Professor, University of Sydney

1 Aug 2018 → 16 Sept 2018

Professor of Buildings Physics and Indoor Climate, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences

Apr 2016 → Sept 2018

Associate Professor, School of Design and Environment, Department of Building, National University of Singapore

Sept 2014 → Mar 2016

Cluster Director Solar and Energy Efficient Buildings, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore

Sept 2014 → Mar 2016

Professor of Buildings Physics and Indoor Climate, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences

Oct 2009 → Aug 2014

Group Head Indoor Climate, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics

Sept 2006 → Sept 2009

Research Scientist (Senior), Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics

Nov 2005 → Aug 2006

Research Scientist, Unit Indoor Climatology, Jena University Hospital

Mar 2004 → Mar 2006

Research Scientist/ Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Chair for Building Climatology and Building Services, Technical University of Munich

Nov 2002 → Feb 2005

Research Scientist/ Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Chair for Building Services, University of Kassel

Nov 1999 → Oct 2002

Visiting Scientist, Dep. of Building Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Feb 1998 → Jul 1998

Research Scientist, Departyment of Heat Technology, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics

Aug 1995 → Oct 1999

Keywords

  • Architecture and Spatial Planning
  • Integrated Architectural Design
  • Human Building Interaction
  • Personal Control
  • Indoor environment
  • Affordances
  • User Experience
  • Adaptive opportunities
  • Climate responsive design
  • Perceived control
  • Sustainable architecture

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  • Metadata record for: The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

    Schweiker, M. (Creator), Abdul-Zahra, A. (Creator), André, M. (Contributor), Al-Atrash, F. (Creator), Al-Khatri, H. (Creator), Alprianti, R. R. (Creator), Alsaad, H. (Creator), Amin, R. (Contributor), Ampatzi, E. (Creator), Arsano, A. Y. (Creator), Azadeh, M. (Contributor), Azar, E. (Creator), Bahareh, B. (Contributor), Batagarawa, A. (Creator), Becker, S. (Creator), Buonocore, C. (Creator), Cao, B. (Creator), Choi, J. (Creator), Chun, C. (Contributor), Daanen, H. (Creator), Damiati, S. A. (Contributor), Daniel, L. (Contributor), Vecchi, R. D. (Creator), Dhaka, S. (Contributor), Domínguez-Amarillo, S. (Creator), Dudkiewicz, E. (Creator), Edappilly, L. P. (Creator), Fernández-Agüera, J. (Contributor), Folkerts, M. (Creator), Frijns, A. (Creator), Gaona, G. (Creator), Garg, V. (Contributor), Gauthier, S. (Creator), Jabbari, S. G. (Creator), Harimi, D. (Creator), Hellwig, R. T. (Creator), Huebner, G. M. (Creator), Jin, Q. (Creator), Jowkar, M. (Creator), Kania, R. (Creator), Kim, J. (Contributor), King, N. (Creator), Kingma, B. (Creator), Koerniawan, M. D. (Contributor), Kolarik, J. (Creator), Kumar, S. (Creator), Kwok, A. (Creator), Lamberts, R. (Creator), Laska, M. (Creator), Lee, M. C. J. (Contributor), Lee, Y. (Contributor), Lindermayr, V. (Creator), Mahaki, M. (Contributor), Marcel-Okafor, U. (Contributor), Marín-Restrepo, L. (Creator), Marquardsen, A. (Creator), Martellotta, F. (Creator), Mathur, J. (Contributor), McGill, G. (Creator), Mino-Rodriguez, I. (Creator), Mou, D. (Creator), Moujalled, B. (Creator), Nakajima, M. (Creator), Ng, E. (Creator), Okafor, M. (Contributor), Olweny, M. (Creator), Ouyang, W. (Contributor), Papst de Abreu, A. L. (Contributor), Pérez-Fargallo, A. (Creator), Rajapaksha, I. (Contributor), Ramos, G. (Contributor), Rashid, S. (Creator), Reinhart, C. F. (Creator), Rivera, M. I. (Contributor), Salmanzadeh, M. (Contributor), Schakib-Ekbatan, K. (Creator), Schiavon, S. (Creator), Shooshtarian, S. (Creator), Shukuya, M. (Creator), Soebarto, V. (Creator), Suhendri (Contributor), Tahsildoost, M. (Creator), Tartarini, F. (Creator), Teli, D. (Creator), Tewari, P. (Contributor), Thapa, S. (Creator), Trebilcock, M. (Creator), Trojan, J. (Creator), Tukur, R. B. (Contributor), Voelker, C. (Creator), Yam, Y. (Contributor), Yang, L. (Creator), Zapata-Lancaster, G. (Creator), Zhai, Y. (Contributor), Zhu, Y. (Contributor) & Zomorodian, Z. S. (Creator), Figshare, 6 Apr 2020

    DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9805289.v2, https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/Metadata_record_for_The_Scales_Project_a_cross-national_dataset_on_the_interpretation_of_thermal_perception_scales/9805289/2

    Dataset: Supplementary material

  • Metadata record for: The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

    Schweiker, M. (Creator), Abdul-Zahra, A. (Creator), André, M. (Contributor), Al-Atrash, F. (Creator), Al-Khatri, H. (Creator), Alprianti, R. R. (Creator), Alsaad, H. (Creator), Amin, R. (Contributor), Ampatzi, E. (Creator), Arsano, A. Y. (Creator), Azadeh, M. (Contributor), Azar, E. (Creator), Bahareh, B. (Contributor), Batagarawa, A. (Creator), Becker, S. (Creator), Buonocore, C. (Creator), Cao, B. (Creator), Choi, J. (Creator), Chun, C. (Contributor), Daanen, H. (Creator), Damiati, S. A. (Contributor), Daniel, L. (Contributor), Vecchi, R. D. (Creator), Dhaka, S. (Contributor), Domínguez-Amarillo, S. (Creator), Dudkiewicz, E. (Creator), Edappilly, L. P. (Creator), Fernández-Agüera, J. (Contributor), Folkerts, M. (Creator), Frijns, A. (Creator), Gaona, G. (Creator), Garg, V. (Contributor), Gauthier, S. (Creator), Jabbari, S. G. (Creator), Harimi, D. (Creator), Hellwig, R. T. (Creator), Huebner, G. M. (Creator), Jin, Q. (Creator), Jowkar, M. (Creator), Kania, R. (Creator), Kim, J. (Contributor), King, N. (Creator), Kingma, B. (Creator), Koerniawan, M. D. (Contributor), Kolarik, J. (Creator), Kumar, S. (Creator), Kwok, A. (Creator), Lamberts, R. (Creator), Laska, M. (Creator), Lee, M. C. J. (Contributor), Lee, Y. (Contributor), Lindermayr, V. (Creator), Mahaki, M. (Contributor), Marcel-Okafor, U. (Contributor), Marín-Restrepo, L. (Creator), Marquardsen, A. (Creator), Martellotta, F. (Creator), Mathur, J. (Contributor), McGill, G. (Creator), Mino-Rodriguez, I. (Creator), Mou, D. (Creator), Moujalled, B. (Creator), Nakajima, M. (Creator), Ng, E. (Creator), Okafor, M. (Contributor), Olweny, M. (Creator), Ouyang, W. (Contributor), Papst de Abreu, A. L. (Contributor), Pérez-Fargallo, A. (Creator), Rajapaksha, I. (Contributor), Ramos, G. (Contributor), Rashid, S. (Creator), Reinhart, C. F. (Creator), Rivera, M. I. (Contributor), Salmanzadeh, M. (Contributor), Schakib-Ekbatan, K. (Creator), Schiavon, S. (Creator), Shooshtarian, S. (Creator), Shukuya, M. (Creator), Soebarto, V. (Creator), Suhendri (Contributor), Tahsildoost, M. (Creator), Tartarini, F. (Creator), Teli, D. (Creator), Tewari, P. (Contributor), Thapa, S. (Creator), Trebilcock, M. (Creator), Trojan, J. (Creator), Tukur, R. B. (Contributor), Voelker, C. (Creator), Yam, Y. (Contributor), Yang, L. (Creator), Zapata-Lancaster, G. (Creator), Zhai, Y. (Contributor), Zhu, Y. (Contributor) & Zomorodian, Z. S. (Creator), Figshare, 2020

    DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9805289, https://springernature.figshare.com/articles/Metadata_record_for_The_Scales_Project_a_cross-national_dataset_on_the_interpretation_of_thermal_perception_scales/9805289

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  • Contextual differences in the interpretation of thermal perception scales – a large-scale international questionnaire study

    Damiati, S. A. (Creator), Alsaad, H. (Creator), Chun, C. (Creator), Thapa, S. (Creator), Amin, R. (Creator), Gauthier, S. (Creator), Huebner, G. M. (Creator), Schiavon, S. (Creator), Bahareh, B. (Contributor), Daniel, L. (Creator), Dom?nguez-Amarillo, S. (Contributor), Folkerts, M. (Creator), Mou, D. (Creator), Kwok, A. (Creator), Lee, M. C. J. (Creator), Teli, D. (Creator), Voelker, C. (Creator), Kania, R. (Creator), McGill, G. (Creator), Dhaka, S. (Creator), Salmanzadeh, M. (Creator), Al-Khatri, H. (Creator), Hellwig, R. T. (Creator), Ouyang, W. (Contributor), Edappilly, L. P. (Creator), Choi, J. (Creator), Kim, J. (Creator), Kolarik, J. (Creator), Schakib-Ekbatan, K. (Contributor), Arsano, A. Y. (Creator), Marcel-Okafor, U. (Creator), Rivera, M. I. (Creator), Mar?n-Restrepo, L. (Creator), Jin, Q. (Creator), Harimi, D. (Contributor), Rashid, S. (Creator), Okafor, M. (Creator), Zapata-Lancaster, G. (Creator), Schweiker, M. (Creator), Frijns, A. (Creator), Batagarawa, A. (Creator) & Becker, S. (Creator), Open Science Framework, 12 Sept 2019

    DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/ps8r7, https://doi.org/10.17605%2Fosf.io%2Fps8r7

    Dataset

  • Contextual differences in the interpretation of thermal perception scales – the data base from a large-scale international questionnaire study

    Marín-Restrepo, L. (Creator), Alsaad, H. (Creator), Harimi, D. (Contributor), Laska, M. (Creator), Dhaka, S. (Creator), Kim, J. (Creator), Al-Khatri, H. (Creator), Rashid, S. (Creator), Moujalled, B. (Creator), Olweny, M. (Creator), Folkerts, M. (Creator), Schweiker, M. (Creator), Lamberts, R. (Creator), Kania, R. (Creator), Damiati, S. A. (Creator), Dudkiewicz, E. (Creator), Edappilly, L. P. (Creator), Gauthier, S. (Creator), Frijns, A. (Creator), Hellwig, R. T. (Creator), Kwok, A. (Creator), Batagarawa, A. (Creator), Jin, Q. (Creator), Vecchi, R. D. (Contributor), Teli, D. (Creator), Azar, E. (Creator), Chun, C. (Creator), Rajapaksha, I. (Creator), Nakajima, M. (Creator), Ouyang, W. (Contributor), Becker, S. (Creator), Salmanzadeh, M. (Creator), Jabbari, S. G. (Creator), Suhendri (Contributor), Choi, J. (Creator), Tewari, P. (Creator), Okafor, M. (Creator), Mou, D. (Creator), Shukuya, M. (Creator), Kumar, S. (Creator), Al-Atrash, F. (Creator), Koerniawan, M. D. (Creator), Daniel, L. (Creator), Amin, R. (Creator), Gaona, G. (Creator), Huebner, G. M. (Creator), Tartarini, F. (Creator), Marcel-Okafor, U. (Creator), Martellotta, F. (Creator), Schiavon, S. (Creator), Bahareh, B. (Contributor), Arsano, A. Y. (Creator), Ramos, G. (Creator), Zhai, Y. (Creator), Kolarik, J. (Creator), McGill, G. (Creator), Thapa, S. (Creator), Domínguez-Amarillo, S. (Contributor), Ampatzi, E. (Creator), Fernández-Agüera, J. (Contributor), Zapata-Lancaster, G. (Creator), Voelker, C. (Creator), Schakib-Ekbatan, K. (Creator), Rivera, M. I. (Creator), Jowkar, M. (Creator) & Lee, M. C. J. (Creator), Open Science Framework, 25 Apr 2019

    DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/9p2gq, https://doi.org/10.17605%2Fosf.io%2F9p2gq

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