Meet the HESTIA ECRs

Our Early Career Researchers:

Carolina Recart

Ph.D. Chancellor’s Fellow,
University of Strathclyde

Carolina is a Chancellor’s Fellow (Lecturer) with a background in architecture and building physics, with research interests in building sufficiency, energy retrofits, and occupant health and wellbeing.

Dr. Darpan Das

Lecturer
University of York

After his PhD, in Environmental Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, Darpan worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and later as an Exposure Scientist at Institute of Occupational Medicine, UK..

Dr. Giorgos Petrou

Senior Research Fellow
University College London

Dr Giorgos Petrou is a Senior Research Fellow in Building Physics Modelling at the UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE) with experience in leading research in healthy and low-carbon housing.

Dr. Cheng Cui

Research Fellow
University College London

Research Fellow in Indoor Environmental Modelling, with a background in building physics and building services. 

Rebecca Sale

PhD Researcher
University of Leeds

PhD Researcher. Focusing on indoor air in homes and the experience of indoor air for families and children living in energy poverty.

Dr. Lia Chatzidiakou

Research Fellow
University of York

Lia’s work is cutting-edge in the field of low-cost sensor technologies for personal exposure estimation, activity profiling and quantification of health impacts..

Kylie Kay

PhD Researcher
University of Leeds

PhD student researching older people’s indoor environmental quality in retrofitted homes through the lens of environmental and energy justice.

Dr. Muhammad Zaeem Farooq

Researcher
University of Strathclyde

Researcher in built environment and building simulation with interest in occupant well being.