RWTH Certificate Course – Designing for Sustainability

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Linda Hildebrand
Junior Professor for Reuse in Architecture at RWTH Aachen and co-founder of the Start-up Concular

Linda Hildebrand studied Architecture at the Detmolder School for Architecture and Interior Design. After graduating, she started working on Green Building Certificates and became a self-employed consultant for environmental aspects in architectural design at c u b e, circularity in the built environment. She was a researcher and teacher at the Detmolder School and the TU Delft where she wrote her PhD thesis on Embodied energy in architecture. She was assigned as Junior professor for Reuse in Architecture 2014 at RWTH Aachen and co-founded the Start-up Concular, a platform for digital services to facilitate circularity in the built environment in 2020. Due to different visiting professorships, such as at University of California Los Angeles or University of Mitrovica she gained insight to different international approaches and strategies for sustainability. Linda’s work is focused on the interchange from research to application in both directions which is reflected in her projects at the university as well as in her practice. Clients are architects and engineering companies as well as tech companies, the building industry, and communities. She is an expert on sustainability of buildings and building materials and specialized on resources throughout the building’s life cycle. Publications include scientific articles, literature for students and architecture books.

Dana Saez, M. Sc.
Research Associate at the Chair for Structures and Structural Design (TRAKO) at RWTH Aachen

Dana Saez graduated in Architecture from Buenos Aires University in 2012. Since then, she has been actively engaged in the exploration of the interaction between design and materials research. Her work involves uncovering the physical and expressive potential of various materials through traditional as well as digital techniques. Dana has worked as an architect at multiple architectural firms in Argentina and Germany. Notably, she served as the Architect-in-Residence at the European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC) in the Netherlands, during 2015 and 2018. Her work has been exhibited in several countries including Argentina, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Currently, Dana holds the position of research associate and PhD candidate at the Chair for Structures and Structural Design (TRAKO) at the Faculty of Architecture of RWTH Aachen. Her research primarily focuses on innovative building materials for the development of a sustainable built environment.

Prof.i.V. Dr.-Ing. Daniele Santucci
Managing Director of Climateflux & Deputy Head of the Chair for Building Technology at RWTH Aachen

Daniele Santucci is a scientist, educator, and entrepreneur. He is deputy head of the Chair for Building Technology at RWTH Aachen University and is managing director at Climateflux, a company that consults architecture firms, public institutions, and private companies on strategies and design solutions to increase public health. Daniele holds a doctoral degree and a Master of Science ClimaDesign from the Technical University of Munich, and a Diploma in Architecture from Romatre University in Rome. In 2017 and 2018 he has been appointed visiting researcher at the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His professional expertise is in environmental engineering, low carbon design, and computational trans scalar workflows targeted to achieve carbon neutrality in the built environment. He has authored and coauthored several books, journal papers, and peer reviewed scientific articles.