Eduardo Gascón Alvarez

Eduardo (Edu) Gascón Alvarez is an architect and researcher working on ways to achieve a thermally comfortable built environment at minimal material and energetic cost. He is a PhD candidate in the Building Technology group at MIT, advised by Professor Caitlin Mueller and Professor Les Norford. His current research focuses on the design and simulation of low-carbon building components that improve the resiliency of buildings to heat. Before MIT, he completed his Bachelor's and Master's studies in Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and worked for four years at BBG, a structural consultancy firm based in Barcelona.