Dynamics and Mechanism of Human Thermal Adaptation in Building Environment

Dr. Maohui Luo is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Built Environment (CBE) at UC Berkeley. His research interests cover the topics of adaptive thermal comfort, personal comfort devices, and indoor air movement, with the goal of creating sustainable, comfort and healthy buildings efficiently. His Ph.D. research at Tsinghua University focuses on human thermal adaptation in buildings, which received the honor of “Excellent Ph.D. Thesis” in 2017 from Tsinghua University.

• Introduction.- The dynamics of thermal comfort expectation.- The dynamic process of thermal adaptation in buildings.- Indoor climate and thermal physiological acclimization.- Psycological aspect of thermal comfort adaptation.- Development of adaptive heat balance model.- Conclusion and future prospect.