Dr. Mahsa Bagheri, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany, will be visiting the University of Waterloo on Friday, 27 June from 2:30-4:00pm in EV1, room 353. Dr. Bagheri has interests in social aspects of energy usage, and she will speak to the topic:
Shaping future housing policies: Behavioural trends and sustainability insights for a “sufficient” built environment
This will be an informal gathering, and Dr. Bagheri will also provide information about her background and research more broadly (see details below), as well as her home institute in Germany. Dr. Bagheri is also keen to explore potential collaborations, be that joint publications, project proposals, joint supervisions or other relationships.
Note that this event is being held within the context of a binational relationship between Canadian (Waterloo Region) and German (Freiburg-Karlsruhe) researchers on sustainable energy transitions, individuals and communities. A virtual workshop with the two groups was held in April 2025.
All are welcome. For more information (or if any questions), please feel free to contact Prof. Ian Rowlands, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at irowlands@uwaterloo.ca
Note that this is currently scheduled to be an in-person event. If, however, any request is put to Ian Rowlands by Thursday, 26 June to make this a ‘hybrid/virtual’ event (including from colleagues in Germany – start time of 20h30!), that will happily be done. A Zoom invite will be sent to them (and the event will be hybrid).
Speaker's biography
Dr. Mahsa Bagheri studied Architectural Engineering (B.Sc.) at Shiraz University in Iran and received her master’s degree in Architecture, Building and Planning (M.Sc.) from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Her master thesis, as part of a research on sustainable development, focuses on the land-use changes in the historic buildings in Querétaro, Mexico. In September 2024, she completed her PhD at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany). She wrote her dissertation about the reduction of energy consumption in the residential sector through behavioral changes. She joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI as a research assistant in 2018 and was involved in various projects in the field of energy efficiency. Since November 2019, she has been working as a research associate in the Department of Energy Policy and Energy Markets at Fraunhofer ISI.
Full details, including publications and projects, are at Dr. Bagheri’s website.
Details about Dr. Bagheri’s institute, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI are also readily available.