Projects per year
Personal profile
Research profile
Runa T. Hellwig, Dr., is full professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Runa does interdisciplinary research in people's indoor climate perception, human building interaction, overheating, energy-efficient buildings, and integrated architectural design. Her research aims to make a difference in every day life of people in buildings and to overcome the climate change crisis. 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 cover 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 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 in Building Climatology covered by the following keywords:
- Human Building Interaction
- Personal control over the indoor climate
- Occupant perception and behaviour
- Indoor Climate, Thermal Comfort
- Climate adjusted buildings, bioclimatic architecture, passive building technologies
- Building Energy efficiency
- Building physics
- Sustainable strategies in the built environment, especially sufficiency strategies and energy efficiency
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Apsects of occupational health and safety
You may be interested in the following methodologies
- experimental measurements in testing set-ups
- field measurements and surveys
- post-occupancy evaluation, working with people
Education/Academic qualification
Didactic Qualification Programme, Certificate “Hochschullehre Bayern“ (University Teaching Bavaria)
Award Date: 6 May 2013
Thermal Comfort, Dr.-Ing. degree (Doctorate), Technical University of Munich
Nov 2005
Award Date: 2 Nov 2005
Building Climatology, PD (Privatdozent), Habilitation degree, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Sep 2015
Civil Engineering, Dipl.-Ing. degree (Mastger's), 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 → 2022Visiting Professor, University of Sydney
1 Aug 2018 → 16 Sep 2018Professor of Buildings Physics and Indoor Climate, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
Apr 2016 → Sep 2018Associate Professor, School of Design and Environment, Department of Building, National University of Singapore
Sep 2014 → Mar 2016Cluster Director Solar and Energy Efficient Buildings, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore
Sep 2014 → Mar 2016Professor of Buildings Physics and Indoor Climate, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
Oct 2009 → Aug 2014Group Head Indoor Climate, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics
Sep 2006 → Sep 2009Research Scientist (Senior), Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics
Nov 2005 → Aug 2006Research Scientist, Unit Indoor Climatology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
Mar 2004 → Mar 2006Research Scientist/ Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Chair for Building Climatology and Building Services, Technical University of Munich
Nov 2002 → Feb 2005Research Scientist/ Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Chair for Building Services, University of Kassel
Nov 1999 → Oct 2002Visiting Scientist, NorwegianDep. of Building Technology, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Feb 1998 → Jul 1998Research Scientist, Departyment of Heat Technology, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics
Aug 1995 → Oct 1999Keywords
- Architecture and Spatial Planning
- Human Building Interaction
- People's Indoor Climate Perception
- Integrated Architectural Design
- Personal Control
- Thermal Comfort
- Adaptation
- Climate-adjusted buildings
- Passive building technologies
- Post-occupancy evaluation
- Field studies
- Ergonomics
- Occupant perception
- Construction
- Building automation system (BAS
- Zero Energy Buildings
- Building physics
- Energy
- Building technology
- Building Energy efficiency
- Building Heating and Cooling
- Low-energy buildings
- Environment
- Sufficiency
- Resilience
- Occupant behaviour
- Building Climatology
- Climate Adaption
- Occupational Health and Safety
Fingerprint The fingerprint consists of automatically generated concepts related to the associated persons. It is updated automatically, when new content is added.
- 2 Similar Profiles
Network
Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Projects
- 4 Finished
Subtask B2: Provide design guidelines on how to use adaptive comfort for lowering energy use in buildings including the usage of personal comfort systems, IEA EBC Annex 69: “Strategy and practice of adaptive thermal comfort in low energy buildings”
Hellwig, R. T., Despoina, T., Schweiker, M., Choi, J., Lee, J. M. C., Mora, R., Rawal, R., Wang, Z. & Al-Atrash, F.
01/01/2015 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research
Subtask C: Case studies - Practical learnings from exemplary adaptive buildings, Case study buildings in Amman, Jordan
01/01/2015 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research
Activity A3 Scale studies - IEA EBC Annex 69: “Strategy and practice of adaptive thermal comfort in low energy buildings”
01/01/2017 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research
Activity B4: Accuracy of thermal comfort models - IEA EBC Annex 69: “Strategy and practice of adaptive thermal comfort in low energy buildings”
Hellwig, R. T., Schweiker, M., Gauthier, S. & Parkinson, T.
01/04/2018 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research
Research Output
Guideline to bridge the gap between adaptive thermal comfort theory and building design and operation practice
Hellwig, R. T., Despoina, T., Schweiker, M., Choi, J-H., Lee, J. M. C., Mora, R., Rawal, R., Wang, Z. & Al-Atrash, F., 6 May 2020, 11th Windsor Conference - Resilient Comfort, Proceedings. Roaf, S., Nicol, F. & Finlayson, W. (eds.). Ecohouse Initiative Ltd., p. 529-545 17 p. 068Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review
Open Access
A framework for adopting adaptive thermal comfort principles in design and operation of buildings
Hellwig, R. T., Despoina, T., Schweiker, M., Choi, J-H., Lee, J. M. C., Mora, R., Rawal, R., Wang, Z. & Al-Atrash, F., 15 Dec 2019, In : Energy and Buildings. 205, 13 p., 109476.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
4
Citations
(Scopus)
What about children? Implications from their subjective perception and the risk of overheating in schools
te Kulve, M., Hellwig, R. T., van Dijken, F. & Boerstra, A., 6 May 2020, Proceedings 11th Windsor Conference. Roaf, S., Nicol, F. & Finlayson, W. (eds.). Ecohouse Initiative Ltd., p. 216-223 184Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Revisiting overheating indoors.
Hellwig, R. T., Apr 2018, Proceedings of 10th Windsor Conference: Rethinking Comfort Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK, 12-15 April 2018. London. London: Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings, http://nceub.org.uk, 13 p. paper 0116Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Article in proceeding › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Perceived control in indoor environments: a conceptual approach
Hellwig, R. T., 2015, In : Building Research and Information. 43, 3, p. 302-315Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
31
Citations
(Scopus)
Prizes
Member of the Committee of Workplaces (ASTA) of the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
Hellwig, Runa T. (Recipient), 8 May 2019
Prize: Honorary prizes and appointments
Visiting Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, School of Architecture
Hellwig, Runa T. (Recipient), Jul 2019
Prize: Honorary prizes and appointments
Visiting Professor in Architectural and Design Science at The University of Sydney
Hellwig, Runa T. (Recipient), Aug 2018
Prize: Honorary prizes and appointments
Endeavour Executive Fellow, Australian Government, 2018 Fellowship at The University of Sydney, Indoor Environmental Quality Laboratory
Hellwig, Runa T. (Recipient), 7 Nov 2017
Prize: Honorary prizes and appointments
Activities
Member of the Committee of Workplaces (ASTA)
Runa T. Hellwig (Consultant)
2019 → 2022
Activity: Public/private sector consultancy and other employment › Public Sector Consultancy
Frontiers in Built Environment Front. Built Environ. (Journal)
Bin Yang (Editor), , Runa T. Hellwig (Editor), & Joon-Ho Choi (Editor)
Sep 2019 → Dec 2020
Activity: Editorial work and peer review › Journal editor › Research
16th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate (Event)
Runa T. Hellwig (Member)
1 Nov 2020 → 5 Nov 2020
Activity: Memberships › Membership of committees, commissions, boards, councils, associations, organisations, or similar
Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (Event)
Runa T. Hellwig (Chairman)
13 Oct 2020 → 14 Oct 2020
Activity: Memberships › Membership of committees, commissions, boards, councils, associations, organisations, or similar
NSB 2020 Building Physics Conference (Event)
Runa T. Hellwig (Member)
6 Sep 2020 → 9 Sep 2020
Activity: Memberships › Membership of committees, commissions, boards, councils, associations, organisations, or similar