Daniel Fosas de Pando

Dr Daniel Fosas de Pando serves as Chancellor's Fellow in Net Zero Buildings at the University of Edinburgh's School of Engineering, within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Research Institute for Infrastructure and Environment. His work bridges building science, climate resilience, and humanitarian engineering with a focus on practical decarbonization strategies.

Research interests center on net zero building retrofits at scale, indoor air quality optimization, and climate-adaptive design, particularly in vulnerable contexts like refugee shelters. His methodology combines computational modeling with field monitoring to address energy-carbon trade-offs under climate change constraints, emphasizing actionable decision-making tools for designers and policymakers.

Publication trends reveal strong focus on building decarbonization pathways (38% of recent work), shelter environments for displaced populations (29%), and climate risk communication (16%). Key themes include scaling retrofit interventions, occupant behavior impacts, and simplified modeling for resource-constrained settings.

Major recognitions include:

• Dufton Silver Medal (2022) for pioneering Active Buildings framework
• Best Paper Award Theme Energy (2022)
• Best Paper Award (2017) for building simulation research

He leads the £36m InBuilt project decarbonizing non-domestic building portfolios, supervises PhD candidate M. Yildrim, and collaborates with international teams across Japan, Ethiopia, and the UK. His grant portfolio emphasizes scalable solutions for building stock management and climate resilience.

Research is conducted through the Infrastructure and Environment Institute with strong ties to humanitarian engineering networks, producing open datasets on shelter thermals and building decarbonization pathways.