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.

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 adjusted 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