Ahu Aydogan

Ahu Aydogan serves as Associate Professor and Deputy Chair at the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York (CUNY), where she has held faculty positions since 2014. Her interdisciplinary work bridges architectural science and environmental engineering with a focus on sustainable building systems and indoor environmental quality.

Her educational foundation includes:

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Architectural Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2013)
• Ph.D. in Architectural Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2012)
• M.S. in Architectural Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2008)
• M.S. in Engineering Management, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey (2005)
• M.Arch., Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey (2005)
• B.Arch., Uludag University, Turkey (2001)

Professor Aydogan's research pioneers plant-based air filtration technologies for buildings, investigating formaldehyde removal mechanisms, engineered growth media, and energy-efficient system integration. Her methodology combines laboratory experiments with building-scale implementations to optimize botanical air purification systems.

Analysis of her publication record reveals consistent progression from foundational studies on plant species efficacy (2011) toward advanced engineered systems incorporating ionic liquids and dynamic filtration media (2020-2021), demonstrating increasing sophistication in addressing indoor air quality challenges through architectural innovation.

Her research is supported by significant grants including:

• PSC-CUNY grant as Principal Investigator for optimizing plant-based cassettes (2017-2018)
• CIRG-CUNY grant as Co-PI with Elizabeth Biddinger on formaldehyde adsorption dynamics (2017-2018)
• US Army MSRDC grant as Co-PI on chemical warfare agent filtration (2016-2017)

Professor Aydogan maintains active industry collaboration through the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE) and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), where her sustainability consulting work directly informs her academic research on building-integrated environmental systems.