Presenter

Ulrike Passe is a Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University, an internationally recognized scholar of building science with specific emphasis on natural ventilation and on integrative sustainable design strategies. Designing Spaces for Natural Ventilation (2015), co-authored with Francine Battaglia is used across the world. Her projects include the Interlock House built for the 2009 US DOE Solar Decathlon, the Iowa NSF EPSCoR building science plank 2011 to 2016, and the Sustainable Cities Research Group, founded 2015 at ISU to expand her research towards urban environmental modeling is currently funded by a $2.5 mio NSF INFEWS grant (with PI Jan Thompson) and the $1.2mio Smart & Connected community award from the US NSF which is funding this work.