Prof. Dr.-Ing. Habil Christoph van Treeck

Institute for Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Building, RWTH Aachen University

Christoph van Treeck is full professor and head of E3D. Before he joined RWTH in 2012, he was head of the Simulation Group of the Department Indoor Environment at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics in Germany and Associate Professor (Privatdozent) at the Technical University München. He has a Ph.D. in computational civil engineering, and is specialized in the fields of computational fluid mechanics, thermal comfort related issues, building performance simulation, and building information modelling. He served as director at large within the board of directors of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Building Performance Simulation. He leads the BIM Center Aachen and is a member of various standardization committees.