Caroline KarmannCaroline Karmann is a PostDoctoral Researcher at the Laboratory of Integrated Performance in Design (LIPID) in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). Caroline is interested in architecture and daylight in spaces, and in how our built environments affect our well-being. Her current research lies in the gap between visual comfort and visual interests based on the subjective and behavioral responses of occupants.
Caroline holds PhD in Building Science in Architecture from UC Berkeley and a dual Master’s degree in Architecture and Energy Engineering from INSA Strasbourg. Her doctoral project was devoted to indoor environmental quality in buildings using radiant conditioning systems. She conducted full-scale laboratory experiments and fields studies in 20 buildings. Her work was presented in multiple conferences including the ASHRAE conference, Windsor and PLEA, where she won Best Paper Award in 2018.
Caroline has five years of professional experience in the field of climate responsive building design. She worked as a consultant for daylight and energy at Transsolar (Stuttgart), where she specialized in building performance simulation, in particular daylighting simulation. Following her PhD, she worked for one year at Arup (London), where she conducted research on city resilience, and supported research activities through workshop facilitation and strategic planning.
Evangelos BeliasEvangelos BELIAS holds an EPFLinnovators fellowship and joined HOBEL as a doctoral assistant on November 1st, 2019. Before, he studied Civil Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and at Ecole Spéciale de Travaux Publics ESTP in Paris as an Erasmus student. During his studies, he focused on buildings' energy performance with a special interest in Phase Change Materials and the improvement of the thermal comfort in buildings.Besides his studies, he worked for two years as a Civil Engineer in the industry. Firstly, he served as Civil-Military Engineer in the Greek Army as part of his military service, where he produced many technical-economic studies and supervised various construction projects. Afterward, he moved to Paris, where he worked at SNCF on the HS2 project and at EDVANCE on the EPR2 construction project.In HOBEL, his main focus is the natural ventilation of buildings and the integration of IoT technologies in the HVAC control systems in order to improve the Indoor Environmental Quality in an energy-efficient way.Alongside his studies, he has always been an active part of school councils and students' unions. The main demands are the improvement of the education system and more funds for research.
