Professor Veronica Soebarto
Director of Research, School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Adelaide.
Presentation: "“Do our houses keep us warm in winter and cool in summer? A study on improving the thermal environment of housing for older Australians”
Veronica is the leader of the Sustainability research group and her research interests span from age-friendly built environment, environmental performance assessments of buildings, building performance simulation, building monitoring, human thermal comfort, to the social dimension of sustainable design.
Veronica initiated the Environment & Building Research Unit. She also leads the Green Urban Futures research theme of the Environment Institute, and the Sustainable Built Environment research theme of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences.
Her research interests include:
- Building thermal/energy simulation
- Environmental monitoring
- Sustainable building design and assessments
- Human thermal comfort
- Green space and well-being
- Age-friendly built environment
- Social dimension of sustainability and sustainable design.