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
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.
• 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)