The Building Materials Research Group comprises of both experienced and new researchers. The names of the researchers link to their official AAU profiles, where a full overview of publications and activities can be found.

Rasmus is Associate Professor in the Division of Architectural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering at Aalborg University and Head of the Indoor Environmental Engineering Laboratory. Rasmus obtained his PhD from Aalborg University in 2005, and has worked with building physics the past 15 years with a focus on energy use, indoor comfort, air distribution, and ventilation. He has made significant contributions to the development and quality assurance of experimental techniques involving energy use and indoor environment.

In this duration he has published 48 international peer-reviewed journal and conference articles, 3 monograph/book chapters, >60 research and technology development reports and >60 conference proceedings papers. He has supervised and co-supervised more than 100 MSc students and 10 PhD students, and participated in multiple projects.

Per is a Professor in the Division of Water and Environment, Department of Civil Engineering at AAU. He is a world-leading scientist in soil physics research areas, with a PhD in Soil and Environmental Engineering from AAU (1990). His areas of expertise include (1) diffusion and diffusion-controlled processes in water and air phases of porous media, (2) descriptive-predictive models for soil gaseous and liquid phase transport parameters, and (3) porous media pore-network characteristics and their effects on environmental functions.

Per has taught a large number of courses within the environmental engineering disciplines at multiple levels (undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD-level courses) and supervised >200 MSc students and >30 PhD students for their thesis/dissertation work. He has published 265 internationa peer-reviewed journal articles, 4 monograph/book chapters, and >250 conference proceedings papers/abstracts.

Kirstine is a PhD fellow working on determining moisture dynamics in the research project Non-Equilbrium of Water Vapor Sorption in Building Materials (NOWA). She has a BSc. in Civil Engineering (2016) and an MSc. in Indoor Environmental and Energy Engineering (2018), both from Aalborg University. Her Master Thesis was focused on particle exposure in the human airways, which included a collaboration with Chinese researchers at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology.

Yovko is a PhD fellow working with residential retrofit assessment for near-zero energy buildings and CO2 emissions. He obtained a BEng in Civil Engineering from VIA University College Horsens (2013) and an MSc in Indoor Environmental and Energy Engineering from AAU (2016). His Master Thesis was centered around the properties of Hemp-Lime mix, which instigated the NOWA research project. He was employed as a research assistant at AAU up until starting his PhD, during which time he worked on achieving funding for the NOWA project.

Hicham is a postdoctoral researcher at Aalborg University. He has an MEng in Civil Engineering from the INSA Rennes (2011). In 2018 he obtained his PhD from Aalborg University, focused on the integration of a magnetocaloric heat pump in energy flexible buildings. A lot of Hicham’s work involves the thermal properties of materials. He is actively involved in the Architectural Engineering laboratories and hosts several workshops to students about the thermal properties of materials, control systems, etc.