Nada Tarkhan

Nada Tarkhan is a PhD candidate in the Sustainable Design Lab within MIT’s Building Technology group. Her research focuses on leveraging computational methods to address climate challenges in urban environments, with an emphasis on climate extremes, data-driven urban modeling, and their intersections with environmental justice and localizing overheating in cities. Nada has a background in sustainability consulting and urban building physics modeling at Arup, where she has worked on projects ranging from energy and resilience modeling for large-scale developments to the integration of advanced simulation tools for indoor and outdoor environmental performance. She holds a Masters degree (MDes) in Energy and Environments from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor in Science (B.Sc) in Architectural Engineering from the American University in Cairo.