Jingchun Shen

Personlig presentation av Jingchun Shen

Senior Lecturer Construction Technology
Construction Technology School of Information and Engineering

My innovative focus areas are:

1) Digital solutions for urban energy transitions
2) Building performance studies via data-driven design to digital twins
3) Environmental impact quantification through comprehensive LCA
4) Advancing circular economy in building materials and technologies selection

Committees

Board Member in Committee for Education Evaluation

Background

Dr. Jingchun Shen (Vicky) is Senior Lecturer at Building Technology, Institute for Information and Technology at Dalarna University, Sweden. Vicky received her Ph.D. degree on the topic of Solar Thermal Facade System and its Application from the Nottingham University, UK in 2017. She is active in projects at national level (e.g. Formas, the Swedish Energy Agency) and industry level (e.g. stra Zeneca, Sundbyberg, Sweden, Solna Link, Sweden Lau Gland Data Centre, Switzerland, Business Finland). She has published 33 journal articles, 2 book, 6 book chapters and 20 conference papers by the end of April 2025.

Teaching

  1. BY2022 Energy project, cr. 7.5 (course responsible)
  2. GBY2GC BIM in the Building Process, cr. 7.5 (City Information Modelling part)
  3. EG3014 Solar Building Design, cr. 5 (Building Simulation part)
  4. EG3015 Solar Radiation and Geometry, cr.5 (Daylighting part)
  5. ABY27W Introduction to Bioclimate Building Design, cr.2.5 (Daylighting & Lighting part)
  6. BY3001 Energy Efficient Building,  cr.7.5 (Daylihgting & Adapative Facade part)
  7. ABY22W Energy performance of buildings - simulation and analysis, cr.5  (course responsible)
  8. BY3004 Environmental classification tool, cr.2.5  (course responsible)
  9. AEG 294 Positive Energy District, cr.3.0  (City Information Modelling part)
  10. EG3020, Degree Thesis for 60-Credits Master in EEBE, cr.15 (Industry and research thesis work supervision)

Course Coordinator

Research

•   Complete upgrade of master's program in solar energy (Swedish KK stiftelsen, 2025-2028)

•   Bridging achievement of SDGs for Balanced Positive Energy Districts (Swedish Energimyndigheten 2024-2027)

•   REBYGG - Assessment of the impact of reused building frame materials on buildings' greenhouse gas emissions and total energy needs (Swedish Energimyndigheten, 2024-2026) 

•   Envision Urban Transformation - creative methods and virtual imaginative future scenarios for real community development and collaborative learning to build sustainable and resilient cities (Swedish Energimyndigheten 2023-2026)

•   Solar Research Centre Sweden (Swedish Energimyndigheten 2022-2025)

•   Auto characterisation of PEDs for digital references towards iterative process optimisation (Swedish Energimyndigheten 2022-2025)

•  Integrated asset management for lighting in public libraries through Digital Twin (Swedish Energimyndigheten, 2022-2024)

Publications