Organizing
Committees

CHAIR COMMITTEE

Waldo Bustamante

Mechanical Civil Engineer from the University of Chile. Master in Urban Development from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and PhD in Applied Sciences from Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS).

Felipe Encinas

Architect from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Master of Science from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Academic Secretary at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies (FADEU). Researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS) and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture in the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Magdalena Vicuña

Architect from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Master in Community Planning from the University of Maryland in the United States and PhD in Architecture and Urban Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies (FADEU). Associate Professor at the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies and Associate Researcher at CIGIDEN.

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

María José Molina

Commercial Engineer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Master in Local and Regional Development from the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Executive Director of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS).

María Isabel Rivera

Architect from the University of Concepcion. Master of Architecture from the University of Washington, USA. PhD in Architecture from the University of Oregon. Researcher of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS) and Assistant Professor of the Department of Architecture, University of Concepcion.

José Guerra

Architect from the Catholic University of the North. PhD in Architecture, Energy and Environment from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Director of the School of Architecture from the Catholic University of the North. Director of the Research Center for Architecture, Energy and Sustainability (CIAES) at the Catholic University of the North.

Maureen Trebilcock

Architect from the University of Bio Bio. Master of Arts in Green Architecture and PhD from the University of Nottingham.​ Director of the PhD program in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Bio Bio.

Sergio Vera

Civil Engineer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. PhD from Concordia University and Master of Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Productivity and Sustainable Construction (CIPYCS). Assistant Professor and Director of the Department of Engineering and Construction Management at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Nina Hormzábal

Architect from the University of Washington. Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. PhD in POE and Energy Efficiency in Housing from the University of Nottingham. Professor and Researcher of the Laboratory of the Bioclimatic Area in the Department of Architecture of the Federico Santa María Technical University.

M. Beatriz Piderit

Architect from the University of Bio-Bio. Master in Applied Sciences and PhD from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Associate Professor and researcher at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Bio-Bio. Researcher of the research group in “Environmental Comfort and Energy Poverty” of the University of Bio-Bio.

Massimo Palme

Materials Engineer from the University of Trieste. Master in Geographical Information Systems from MappingGIS. PhD in Architecture, Energy and Environment from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Professor at the Department of Architecture of the Federico Santa María Technical University.

Claudio Carrasco

Architect from the Universidad de Valparaiso. PhD in Architecture, Energy and Environment from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Professor of the Civil Construction School and Researcher of the City Science Laboratory (CSLab) at the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile.