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Anne Marie Kirkegaard is a PhD Fellow at Aalborg University, affiliated with the Department of Construction, Urban and Environmental Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Science. She works in the Section for Building Technology, Processes & Indoor Climate, specifically in the Research Group for Indoor Climate Quality and Building Systems. Her research bridges the fields of building science and public health, focusing on how indoor environmental conditions impact human health outcomes across Denmark's population registries from 2000-2021.
Dr. Kirkegaard's research interests center on the relationship between housing conditions, indoor climate quality, and public health outcomes. Her work primarily employs cohort analysis of Danish population data to investigate how factors like housing type, indoor annoyances, and building systems affect mental health (particularly depression risk) and respiratory conditions (including Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). She has developed specialized expertise in analyzing large-scale register-based studies to identify mediating pathways between physical building characteristics and health outcomes, with particular attention to how perceived annoyances and social factors like loneliness influence depression risk.
Her publication record demonstrates a clear research trajectory connecting building science with epidemiological methods. Starting with clinical studies on hospital outcomes, her work has evolved to focus on population-level housing and health relationships. Her most impactful recent work examines how housing type influences depression risk through perceived indoor annoyances and loneliness, revealing important indirect pathways between building design and mental health. This systems approach to understanding the building-health relationship represents a significant contribution to interdisciplinary environmental health research.
Dr. Kirkegaard has been actively involved in three major research projects: her PhD project on housing conditions and indoor climate for public health (2021-2024) supervised by L. Gunnarsen; a broader research project on the same topic (2021-2025); and a project tracking development in housing conditions and indoor climate in Denmark from 2000-2021 (2020-2023). These projects involved extensive collaboration with researchers from public health, epidemiology, and building science disciplines.
Based at Aalborg University's Copenhagen campus (AC Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen SW), Dr. Kirkegaard works within a research environment that combines engineering approaches with health science methodologies. Her position in the Research Group for Indoor Climate Quality and Building Systems places her at the critical intersection of technical building systems and human health outcomes, allowing her to contribute valuable insights that inform both building design practices and public health policy.
