Lada Hensen Centnerová

Lada Hensen Centnerová is a researcher and teacher in the Building Physics and Services unit of the Department of the Built Environment. She is Operational Director of PDEng program Smart Buildings & Cities. Her research focuses on indoor environment quality (especially thermal comfort and indoor air quality), how this would affect health and wellbeing, and how this can be optimized in design and operation of buildings. As an indoor environment expert she wants to make people feel better in buildings. In her view buildings primarily exist to provide a good indoor environment; sustainability and fossil energy consumption are important considerations but secondary.  Lada Hensen Centnerová graduated from the Slovak University of Technology Bratislava in Civil Engineering with specialization Building Services Systems. She became assistant professor in the Department of Microenvironmental and Building Services Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague.  In 2001 she was awarded the PhD degree by the Czech Technical University in Prague. Her research was about empirical verification of adaptive and traditional model of thermal comfort and about simulation based prediction of building energy consumption consequences of adaptive instead of traditional thermal comfort approaches in countries with temperate climates such as the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Her current research focuses on indoor environment quality, especially thermal comfort and indoor air quality and their relation to health and wellbeing in dwellings.

I want to help people to feel good in buildings, which should support their health and wellbeing.