I carried out my doctoral research on energy simulation and design of hybrid building envelopes, with a specific focus on Water-filled Glass (WFG). During my studies, I worked on short, project-based contracts at architecture practices in Europe and Japan, including Alvaro Siza, Arata Isozaki and Shigeru Ban.

After graduating in 2010, I started working at Budapest Technical University, where I taught architecture and led an EU research grant on Water-filled Glass. The project was a collaboration of academia and industry and developed the first prototypes of the technology, a manufacturing process and construction method of WFG. The result was a built prototype house titled Water House 1.0. I patented the technology, which is now grated in Japan and Europe (including the UK). Parallel to teaching and research, I founded an architecture practice that worked on projects with various scale and function in Europe and China.

From 2012 I was granted JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship and joined the Laboratory of Prof Kengo Kuma at The University of Tokyo. I worked together with AGC Glass and Mitsubishi Plastics and developed a WFG prototype tailored for hot climates. After completion of the Fellowship in 2014, I joined Feng Chia University in Taiwan. I continued the research with The University of Tokyo and built a second WFG prototype building titled Water House 2.0.

I joined Loughborough when the architecture program started in 2017. Since then, I am supporting our team's effort in developing the program by bridging our technical and design teaching. In terms of research, I extended WFG to other fields of Sustainable Construction, including Advanced Façade Design and Engineering aspects (e.g. simulation and design of envelopes) and Life-Cycle Carbon Assessment of the built environment. 

Professional affiliations

• The Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education (EAUC)

Awards

• “Highly Commended” for ‘Reaching Higher’ Award of Association of University Directors of Estates /AUDE/ (for Food + Wood Summer School)
• Finalist for Green Gown Award for Sustainability (for Food + Wood Summer School)
• Junior Príma Prize (granted for innovation: Water House patent)
• Hauszman Prize for Graduation Design (awarded by Hauszman Foundation)

External activities

I am a Reviewer for the following journals:

• Energy and Buildings (Elsevier)
• Journal of Façade Design and Engineering (TU Delft)
• Sustainability (MDPI)
• Energies (MDPI)

Key collaborators

My research and enterprise activities are conducted with a range of academic and stakeholder partners, including:

• Kengo Kuma Lab, The University of Tokyo
• Department of Applied Mathematics in Aerospace Engineering, Technical University of Madrid
• University of Kaiserslautern
• Budapest University of Technology
• Jülich Glas