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Staf Roels
Professor, Head of Building Physics Section, University of Leuven
� staf.roels@bwk.kuleuven.be
Staf Roels is head of the Building Physics Section, University of
Leuven (KU LEUVEN), Belgium. He earned his master title of civil
engineer-architect at the same university in 1990. After gaining
practical experience as civil engineer and architect he returned to the KU LEUVEN
in 1996, where he started working as research fellow. In 2000 he defended his
Ph.D. thesis, entitled “Unsaturated moisture transport in heterogeneous limestone”,
at the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the KU LEUVEN. In 2001 he became parttime
assistant professor, in 2004 full-time associate professor and since 2007 full
professor at the Building Physics Section, KU LEUVEN. He lectures on building
physics, building construction, performance based design and applied building
physics. His research mainly focuses on moisture transport in porous building
materials and the analysis of the hygrothermal behaviour and durability of building
constructions. In his research he often combines refined numerical techniques with
advanced experimental methods. He published more than 150 research papers of
which 45 in international journals. At the moment Staf Roels has a lead task in some
national and international research projects in the area of heat, air and moisture
transfer in building constructions and in the area of integral building performance
assessment.
Peter Sweatman
Chief Executive, Climate Strategy & Partners
� peter@climatestrategy.es
Peter Sweatman is the Chief Executive of Climate Strategy &
Partners (www.climatestrategy.com), a strategic consultant in Clean
Energy, Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change
Strategies. For 5 years directly prior to this Peter was Managing Director responsible
for Iberia and Latin America for Climate Change Capital, one of the world’s leading
specialist fund manager and advisors in the low carbon economy.
Peter holds a Masters degree in Engineering and Management Studies from
Cambridge University. In 1991, he joined JPMorgan in Corporate Finance where he
spent 9 years responsible for client business mainly in debt capital markets for Iberia
and Latin America from London and then New York. In the year 2000, Peter became
a social entrepreneur joining with other ex-bankers to found and run three NGOs:
Charity Technology Trust (www.ctt.org), New Philanthropy Capital and Catalyst
Climate Change Trust.