Abstract
This issue of the Journal comes to you with many changes that are all aimed at reflecting our evolving scientific community. First, the cover of the Journal offers a more modern look, with photos chosen to illustrate the scope of building physics. I am grateful to SAGE for having been instrumental in this change.
A second change aims at supporting education in building physics with a new category of papers, Pedagogical Notes in Building Physics. This issue includes the first of a successful series, we hope, of Pedagogical Notes.
Finally, nine new members are joining the editorial board of the journal. The selection was made under the guidance and advice of SAGE, aiming at more diversity, in gender, experience, expertise, and country of provenance. It is my pleasure to welcome and introduce them.
Chiemi Iba is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. She is a member of the Laboratory for Building Environment Control. After graduating with a Masters from Kyoto University Graduate School in 2002, she worked as a researcher at the Northern Regional Building Research Institute, Hokkaido, Japan. She conducted practical research on thermal insulation methods and material durability there, as well as carrying out many tests of material properties and building components performance. In 2010 she obtained her Ph.D in Engineering at Kyoto University. She started working as an assistant professor at Kyoto University in 2012 and has been in her current position since 2019. Her recent research topics are conservation of historical buildings, especially related to the frost damage of stone and ceramics, the environmental control of exhibition and storage rooms in museums, and the improvement of thermal environment in traditional dwellings and temporary houses in Japan. She has published 33 papers in international conference proceedings, such as IBPC, NSB, CESBP, and International Congress on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone.
Sam Glass is a Research Physical Scientist with the Building and Fire Sciences Unit at the USDA Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), located in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has worked at FPL since 2005, conducting fundamental research on wood–water interactions and applied research on the hygrothermal performance and durability of wood-based building envelope systems. He is a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and participates in technical committees and the development of standards. He recently completed a term as Research Subcommittee Chair of Technical Committee 4.4, Building Materials and Building Envelope Performance, and currently serves as Vice Chair of Standard 160, Criteria for Moisture-Control Design Analysis in Buildings.
Angela Sasic Kalagasidis is professor in Building Physics and leader of the research group Building Physics Modeling at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Her research interests concern numerical modeling and simulations of heat, air, and moisture transfer in and around buildings. Applications include building stock characteristics and energy use, energy efficiency and moisture safety of building envelopes, advanced materials for thermal energy storage, stormwater management in green roofs, impact studies on climate change, urban environmental quality, and indoor emissions. She has contributed to the development of several powerful computational tools to support the development and dissemination of innovative building technologies and thermal systems. Angela’s research has resulted in more than 100 publications whereof 37 are articles in relevant scientific journals and 50 conference papers.
Ruut Peuhkuri, MSc (Civil Eng.), PhD, Research Director, Head of Division, Civil Engineering and Construction Management, Aalborg University, Department of the Built Environment (BUILD). Expert in building physics, specializing in moisture dynamics and interaction between indoor environment and materials. Examples of application of research: use of building materials as moisture buffers in constructions and for indoor spaces; Development of numerical models for biological growth, used for prediction of the performance and the service life of buildings, structures, and materials. She has 20 years’ experience from different research and knowledge-based organizations and tasks: management and coordination of research and funding proposals, work with simulation models and experiments, theoretical teaching at the university level, guidelines to building professionals, supervision of students. For the last 5 years she has led a research division.
Nathan Van Den Bossche is associate professor of Building Science at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University in Belgium. He graduated as a civil engineer-architect at Ghent University, Belgium in 2005. After working at a leading engineering firm, he started working at Ghent University. In 2008 he obtained a teacher’s degree in Art Science, in 2009 a certificate as a carpenter, and a bachelor in real estate in 2018. In 2010 he received a grant for a 4-month internship at the National Research Council Canada in Ottawa, Canada. Based on his thesis “Watertightness of building components: principles, testing and design guidelines”, he earned his PhD in Engineering Sciences at Ghent University in 2013. He was appointed associate professor at Ghent University in 2016. His research interests are building technology, watertightness, airtightness, thermal optimization of building components, and building pathology based on the modeling of heat, air, and moisture transfer in buildings. He is in charge of the Test Centre for Façade Components at Ghent University. He is author and co-author of over 100 research articles published in international journals, proceedings of international conferences and books. As a consultant he was involved in projects by Zaha Hadid Architects, Neutelings Riedijk, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Ian Simpson, Stephane Beel, and others.
Twan van Hooff obtained his PhD at both Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and KU Leuven in 2012 (double degree). Currently, he is Associate Professor in Building Ventilation in the Building Physics research group and Chairman of the Unit Building Physics and Services at TU/e. He has published 55 ISI journal papers and 77 papers in international conference proceedings so far, and acts as reviewer for 54 ISI journals.
Monika Woloszyn has been working in the field of Building Physics for more than 20 years. She received Master and PhD degrees from the University of Lyon, and is now a full professor at University Savoie Mont Blanc, in France. Monika’s research interests lie in coupled heat and mass transfers in building envelopes and their impact on global environmental performance of buildings. It covers energy performance, efficiency of ventilation systems, retrofitting of existing buildings, indoor environmental quality, and solar energy integration. Methods used range from laboratory experiments, via in-situ monitoring, to numerical modeling and simulation. Monika has published over 150 scientific papers, and has co-supervised 20 PhD students and is now the head of graduate school “Solar Academy”.
David W. Yarbrough is presently V. President of R&D Services, Inc., an accredited laboratory located in Watertown, TN that specializes in thermal insulation and related building materials. He retired from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tennessee Technological University in 2002 as Professor and Chair. During the period 1980 to 2011, he was a research staff member (part time) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN where he was involved in research related to thermal insulation materials. Dr. Yarbrough is active in Committee C16 of ASTM, TC 04.04 of ASHRAE, the International Thermal Conductivity Conference (ITCC), and the Tennessee Academy of Science (TAS). He is a Fellow of the ASTM, a Fellow and Board Member of the ITCC, and Past-President and Fellow of the TAS. He earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia in 1966. Dr. Yarbrough has been a member of the Society of the Sigma Xi since 1968 and has awards from the ASTM (C16 Honors Award), TAS (Distinguished University Scientist), ITCC (International Thermal Conductivity Award), and a 2009 R&D 100 award as a member of a four person team. Dr. Yarbrough is a registered professional engineer residing in Cookeville, TN, USA.
Xiaohai Zhou is currently a senior scientist and lecturer at the Chair of Building Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). He is a trained civil engineer and obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zürich in 2015. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Multiscale Studies in Building Physics at Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) from 2015 to 2017. He then worked as a scientist at this laboratory from 2018 to 2020. His research focuses on moisture and heat transport in porous building materials, hygrothermal modeling, building simulation, energy-efficient buildings, building retrofitting, and durability of building materials. He has expertise in using state-of-the-art methods to measure water and vapor transport in porous building materials. He has received travel grants and best paper awards in conferences. He has been reviewer for numerous academic journals. He is a member CIB W080 working group and a scientific committee member of the 15th International conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components (DBMC 2020).
I take this opportunity to thank all the former members of the editorial board that have contributed to the success of the journal for so many years.