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The Human and Planetary Health Group

Harvard GSD

About:

The Human and Planetary Health Group at Harvard Graduate School of Design conducts research to enhance the health of buildings for both occupants and the ecosystem.

Team:

Holly Samuelson, Team Lead

Kayla Baker, Research Associate

Amir Baniassadi, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Research Consultant

Zinan Chi, Research Associate

Yingnan Chu, Postdoctoral Fellow

Soroush Ehsani-Yeganeh, Research Associate

Sheng Liu, Visiting Scholar

Yiwei (Lucy) Lyu, Doctoral Student

Mayuri Rajput, Postdoctoral Fellow

Shide Salimi, Postdoctoral Fellow

Charu Srivastava, Postdoctoral Fellow

Hannah Wong, Research Associate

Owen Woolcock, Research Associate Past Members

Aditi Agarwal, Building Embodied Carbon Specialist, California Air Resources Board

Fatma Al-Alawi, Research Associate, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research

Yu Qian Ang, Faculty, National University of Singapore

Seung-Hyeok Bae, Senior Building Performance Analyst, Introba, New York

Thomas Brawley, Sustainable Solutions, Mainspring Energy

Pamela Cabrera, Senior Associate, Transsolar KlimaEngineering, NYC; Assistant Professor Adjunct at the Cooper Union, NYC

Ryan Call, Master of Architecture Student, Harvard GSD

Kenner Carmody, Foreign Service Construction Engineer, US Department of State 

Iris (Sihui) Chen, Transsolar KlimaEngineering

Yujiao Chen, Scientist, Co-Founder Gonna Be Ok

Quoc Dang, Environmental Performance Software Developer, Kohn Pedersen Fox, New York

Esteban Estrella Guillén, Co-founder, BANA Design Studio, Monterrey, Mexico; Adjunct Professor, Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

Apoorv Goyal, Global Carbon Analytics Lead, Amazon Global Realty

Jungmin (Ellie) Han, Assistant Professor, Yonsie University

Huishan He, Senior Associate, Ennead Architects

Greg Hopkins, Rocky Mountain Institute

Adele Houghton, President, Biositu, LLC; Instructor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Ching Wen Hsiao, Senior Building Energy Analyst, New Ecology

Allison Hyatt, Building Decarbonization Specialist, California Air Resources Board

Joelle Jahn, Deep Carbon Reduction New England Leader, New England, JB&B

Kritika Kharbanda, Global Head of Sustainability, Henning Larsen

Wenting Li, Senior Sustainable Design Specialist, HOK, New York, NY

Anne Lin, Director of Planning and Strategy, Grayscale Collaborative

Victoria López-Cabeza, Interim Professor of Applied Mathematics Universidad de Sevilla

Nan (Nancy) Ma, Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering, WPI

Moulshree Mittal, Sustainability Consultant, Buro Happold, India

Tushar Narula, Senior Consultant ESG and Climate Strategy, PwC

Alejandra Romo-Castillo, Doctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania

Baha Sadreddin, Global Sustainability Lead, Microsoft real estate and campuses

Christine Tiffin, Senior Consultant, Arup, San Francisco, CA

Shreejay Tuladhar, Principal Architect / Co-Founder, ArchSolar Designs

Esteban Vanegas Jr., Master of Architecture Student, Harvard GSD

Christina VohringerAssociate Sustainability Specialist, Perkins Eastman Architects

Toon Virochpoka, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Design 103 International

Rufei Wang, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University

Augusta Williams, Assistant Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Assistant Director, Upstate Children’s Environmental Health Center

Jialiang Xiang, Associate Developer, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

Arta Yazdanseta, Assistant Professor of Technology, RPI

Mirah Xu, Building Physicist, Buro Happold, Los Angeles

Ilia Yazdanpanah, Computational Designer HKS Architects

Nari Yoon, Assistant Professor, Ajou University

Tod Zhu, Sustainability Specialist, AECOM

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