University College London

Department Member, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies

Thesis Title: Modelling the space heating demand and heat wave vulnerability of the domestic building stock within the London Urban Heat Island

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Anna Mavrogianni is a Research Associate in Indoor Environment Modelling. She holds a Diploma in Architectural Engineering from the School of Architecture in the National Technical University of Athens, an MSc with distinction in Environmental Design and Engineering from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies in UCL and is currently completing her PhD on the impact of the London urban heat island on domestic space heating demand, indoor overheating and heat-related health risk.

Her research interests include domestic building stock energy use modelling; energy efficient retrofit technologies; application of Geographic Information Systems in urban energy studies; the impact of urban form, local urban climate and future climate change on the thermal performance of naturally ventilated buildings; indoor environment exposure and associated health risk. Anna is involved in the NERC-funded research project Air Pollution and Weather-related Health Impacts, which aims to develop multi-pollutant models at a high spatial and temporal resolution to assess the adverse effects of exposure to air pollution, cold and heat and the modifying effect of the indoor environment. She is also part of the UCL Energy Institute domestic stock energy modellers team working for the project Optimising Thermal Efficiency of Existing Housing funded by the Energy Technologies Institute, which explores pathways to achieve the challenging national target of refurbishing the existing UK housing stock. Within the context of her PhD, Anna developed a series of energy, comfort and health impact assessment models that formed part of the EPSRC-funded ‘the development of a Local Urban Climate model and its application to the Intelligent Design of cities’ (LUCID) research project led by Prof. Michael Davies. The project findings have informed the Greater London Authority’s Climate Change Adaptation Plan. Anna’s past research work included mapping the temporal and spatial variation of energy use across the UK as part of a project aiming to assess the potential market size for domestic Micro-CHP funded by the Carbon Trust and an investigation of historical indoor temperature trends in domestic environments and their potential influence on body weight gain for the Heating and Obesity Trends project funded by the UCL Crucible Centre.

In collaboration with Stephanie Gauthier, Anna runs the ‘Methods of Environmental Analysis’ module for the MSc in Environmental Design and Engineering at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies. This multidisciplinary module aims to introduce MSc students to the principles, methods and practice of building environmental analysis and the skill set required to complete a research project and present their findings in a scientific report, as well as to provide practical engagement in research and enhanced critical judgement. In the past, Anna has also contributed to the design project tutorials of the 'Natural and Mechanical Ventilation of Buildings' module aiming to encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration between built environment professionals and the application of dynamic thermal modelling as a design tool.

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