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Marcel Schweiker, Ph.D.

Marcel Schweiker leads the Research and teaching area Healthy Living Spaces at the Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine of RWTH Aachen since April 2020. Previously, he was working at the Institute of Building Design and Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Marcel does research in Environmental Engineering, Architectural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering with a focus on thermal comfort and human adaptation. One of the current projects is 'International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme, Annex 79: Occupant-Centric Building Design and Operation.

Selected Publications

  1. Schweiker, M., Rissetto, R. and Wagner, A., 2020. Thermal expectation: Influencing factors and its effect on thermal perception. Energy and Buildings, 210. IF 4.5

  2. Schweiker, M., Fuchs, X., Schakib-Ekbatan, K. and Becker, S., 2020. A seasonal approach to Alliesthesia. Is there a conflict with thermal adaptation? Energy and Buildings, 212, pp.1–13. IF 4.5

  3. Schweiker, M. et al., 2020. Evaluating assumptions of scales for subjective assessment of thermal environments – do laypersons perceive them the way, we researchers believe? Energy and Buildings. IF 4.5

  4. Rawal, R., Schweiker, M., Kazanci, O.B., Vardhan, V., Jin, Q. and Duanmu, L., 2020. Personal Comfort Systems: A review on comfort, energy, and economics. Energy and Buildings, IF 4.5

  5. Day, J.K., Ruiz, S., O’Brien, W. and Schweiker, M., 2019. Seeing is believing: an innovative approach to post-occupancy evaluation. Energy Efficiency. IF 1.9

  6. O’Brien, W., Schweiker, M. and Day, J.K., 2019. Get the picture? Lessons learned from a smartphone-based post-occupancy evaluation. Energy Research & Social Science, 56, p.101224. IF 5.5

  7. Schweiker, M. et al., 2019. The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales. Scientific Data, 6(1), p.289. IF 5.9

  8. Schweiker, M., Kleber, M. and Wagner, A., 2019. Long-term monitoring data from a naturally ventilated office building. Scientific Data, [online] 6(1), p.293. IF 5.9

  9. Hellwig, R.T., Teli, D., Schweiker, M., Choi, J.-H., Lee, M.C.J., Mora, R., Rawal, R., Wang, Z. and Al-Atrash, F., 2019. A framework for adopting adaptive thermal comfort principles in design and operation of buildings. Energy and Buildings, 205, p.109476. IF 4.5

  10. Schweiker, M., Huebner, G.M., Kingma, B.R.M., Kramer, R. and Pallubinsky, H., 2018. Drivers of diversity in human thermal perception – A review for holistic comfort models. Temperature, [online] 5(4), pp.308–342.

  11. Földváry Ličina, V. et al., 2018. Development of the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II. Building and Environment, [online] 142, pp.502–512. IF 4.8

  12. Fuchs, X., Becker, S., Schakib-Ekbatan, K. and Schweiker, M., 2018. Subgroups holding different conceptions of scales rate room temperatures differently. Building and Environment, 128, pp.236–247. IF 4.8

  13. Rinaldi, A., Schweiker, M. and Iannone, F., 2018. On uses of energy in buildings: Extracting influencing factors of occupant behaviour by means of a questionnaire survey. Energy and Buildings, 168. IF 4.5

Interesting Facts

For recreation, I enjoy exploring new playgrounds with my sons, traveling with my family, meeting with friends or doing sports (alone or in groups)

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