Nan (Nancy) Ma

PhD Candidate in the Building Technology of Architecture
University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design, Department of Architecture.

Nancy holds a Bachelor of Environments and a Master of Architecture from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prior to the Weitzman School, she taught several Design Studios, Building Technology and Environmental Systems classes at the University of Melbourne. She also practiced as a design assistant at the Architecture Design & Research Institute of SCUT.

As a graduate student at the Weitzman School of Design, she conducts research by monitoring and collecting data from actual buildings and their inhabitants in order to better understand the human-building interrelationship. Her current projects include the impact of building envelope design on indoor ozone and inhalation exposure, Internet of Things for measuring the influence of energy-related decisions on indoor environmental quality funded by Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and experimental in-lab and in-field analysis of environmental factors for children’s sleep quality in collaboration with the Sleep Center of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Perelman School of Medicine.