Dr. Lada Hensen Centnerová

Eindhoven University of Technology

Biography

Lada Hensen Centnerová is a researcher and teacher in the Building Physics and Services unit of the Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. She is Operational Director of postmaster program Smart Buildings and Cities.

She is chairman of the board of the Dutch chapter of ISIAQ (the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate) since April 2018 and vice-president of REHVA (the Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning associations) since May 2022.

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.    ⇐ back