Melissa M. Bilec
PhD, LEED AP
Roberta A. Luxbacher Fellow
Associate Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Deputy Director
Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
Dr. Bilec's sustainable engineering research group at the University of Pittsburgh represents the next generation of interdisciplinary education and research in environmental science, engineering, and sustainability. Her group focuses on the built environment, life cycle assessment, sustainable healthcare, and indoor air impacts. She is interested in improving system-level environmental performance of buildings, while developing a deeper understanding of indoor environmental quality, occupant impacts, and energy use.
Post Docs
Fernanda Cruz Rios
PhD
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Circular Economy and the Built Environment
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Design for Disassembly and Deconstruction
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Building Life Cycle Assessment
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Equity and Diversity in Higher Education
Ph.D. and M.S. Students
Rezvan Mohammadiziazi
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Application of Machine Learning in Building Energy Use
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Urban Building Energy Modeling
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Building Material Stock Analysis
Jessica Vaden
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Residential IAQ Assessments and Environmental Justice Communities
Jessica Moriah Vaden
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Residential IAQ Assessments and Environmental Justice Communities
Undergraduate Students
Sam Copeland
scopeland@pitt.edu
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Circular Economy and the Built Environment
Former Students & Post Docs
Haley Gardner
former
MS Student
now
ILFI
Harold Rickenbacker
former
PhD Student
now
Environmental Defense Fund
Cassandra Thiel
former
PhD, Post Doc
now
Assistant Professor
Langone School of Medicine
New York University
Kevin Ketchman
former
PhD Student
now
Managing Consultant
Opinion Dynamics
Nicole Campion
former
PhD Student
now
Associate Engineer
Delaware River Port Authority
Bill Collinge
former
PhD, Post Doc
now
Research
Bayer/Covestro
Alexander Dale
former
PhD Student
now
Community Relations Sr. Officer
MIT Solve
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sami Al-Ghamdi
former
PhD Student
now
Assistant Professor
College of Science and Engineering
Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Scott Shrake
former
PhD Student
now
Director at EPICS
Arizona State University
Abdul-Aziz Banawi
former
PhD Student
now
Department Chair
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Neethi Rajagopalan
former
PhD Student
now
Researcher
Department of Forest Biomaterials
North Carolina State University
Christi Saunders
former
Masters Student
now
Virtual Construction Engineer
Mascaro Construction Company
Can Aktas
former
PhD Student
now
Assistant Professor
Tagliatela College of Engineering
University of New Haven
Briana Niblick
former
PhD Student
now
Environmental Engineer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Shen Tian
former
PhD Student
now
Covestro
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