Melissa M. Bilec
PhD, LEED AP
mbilec@pitt.edu
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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.

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Dr. Bilec's current CV.

 

Post Docs

Fernanda Cruz Rios
PhD
fernandacruzrios@pitt.edu
  • Circular Economy and the Built Environment

  • Design for Disassembly and Deconstruction

  • Building Life Cycle Assessment

  • Equity and Diversity in Higher Education

 

Ph.D. and M.S. Students

Rezvan Mohammadiziazi
rezvanziazi@pitt.edu
rem150@pitt.edu
  • Application of Machine Learning in Building Energy Use

  • Urban Building Energy Modeling

  • Building Material Stock Analysis

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Jessica Vaden
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  • Residential IAQ Assessments and Environmental Justice Communities

Jessica Moriah Vaden
jmv78@pitt.edu
  • 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
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now
ILFI
Harold Rickenbacker
former
PhD Student
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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
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now
Researcher 
Department of Forest Biomaterials​
North Carolina State University
Christi Saunders
former
Masters Student
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now
Virtual Construction Engineer 
Mascaro Construction Company
Can Aktas
former
PhD Student
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now
Assistant Professor 
Tagliatela College of Engineering
University of New Haven
Briana Niblick
former
PhD Student
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now
Environmental Engineer 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Shen Tian
former
PhD Student
​
now
Covestro
Vaclav Hasik
former
PhD Student
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now
UrbanFabrick
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