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Andreas Wagner, born 1959, studied mechanical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe before he worked as a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg from 1979 to 1987. His focus was on solar thermal systems, including solar walls, DHW systems and building energy concepts. Since 1995 he is a full Professor for Building Physics and Technical Building Services at the Department of Architecture, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and head of the Building Science Group at the Institute of Design and Building Technology.

 

Besides teaching bachelor and master courses his research focuses on (a) building energy performance monitoring and analysis, (b) simulation-based energy efficient building concepts, and (c) on thermal comfort and occupant behaviour at workplaces. He has supervised or co-supervised more than 45 PhD Theses, 12 of which at other Universities. Former PhD students are now successful university faculty members or researchers in different countries, including 6 full Professors in Germany. Since 2018 he is Co-Operating Agent of the IEA EBC Annex 79 on ‘Occupant-Centric Building Design and Operation’.

 

He has coordinated numerous national and international research projects, with a continuous annual budget of approx. 500.000 € (third party funding) over the last 20 years, and authored or co-authored more than 150 papers published in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings and chapters in text books and other publications (h=17, Google Scholar). He also (co-) edited /wrote 5 scientific books.

 

He has been member of a large number of international Scientific Conference Committees and he chaired 4 conferences in Karlsruhe within the last 10 years. Since 2015 he is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Energy and Buildings" and in the same year he was Guest Editor of this journal for a Special Issue on Occupant Behaviour. Since 2014 he is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Bauphysik" and from 2011 to 2018 he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Advances in Building Energy Research”. Since 2015 he is a Member of the Advisory Board of the London - Loughborough Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Demand.

 

He was Dean of KIT’s Department of Architecture twice over periods of 4 years each and is Vice Dean for Research since 2016. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, in 2015/2016, and a Visiting Scholar at the College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder in 2010, at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney in 2009 and at the College for Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley in 2006.

He was also (founding) partner of ip5 Consulting Engineers Karlsruhe from 1999 until 2016.