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Reihaneh Aghamolaei

Dr. Reihaneh Aghamolaei

Biography Dr Reihaneh Aghamolaei joined Dublin City University (DCU) in 2021 as an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. She previously held lecturing roles at University College Dublin and Griffith College Dublin, specialising in building energy performance analysis, building physics, and energy optimisation. She also worked as a sustainability engineer in Ireland’s AEC industry, focusing on sustainable building design and the assessment of energy performance and carbon emissions for residential and commercial developments.

Research Expertise

Dr Aghamolaei’s research centres on data-driven energy modelling, techno-economic energy optimisation, and renewable energy integration through novel and holistic modelling techniques. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed works, including journal papers and book chapters, in areas such as building energy performance modelling, Building Information Modelling (BIM), and optimisation.

She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Advances in Building Energy Research and has collaborated extensively in multidisciplinary projects with academic and non-academic partners, including the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), University College Dublin, Maynooth University, and the University of Galway. Her current research group includes PhD students and research assistants developing innovative, data-driven, and sustainable solutions for the eneegy systems in the built environment.

Research Interests

Energy systems modelling and optimisation,

Techno-economic energy analysis,

Thermal comfort modelling.

Digitsation and smartenss


Teaching Interests

Building Physics, Energy systems, Renewable technologies, Smart buildings and Digitisation, Sustainability and climate change

Funding Highlights

  • Enabling interdisciplinary analysis for whole life-cycle residential renovation (ENABLE) | Coordinator | 01/09/2023 - 01/09/2027
  • Blockchain-Enabled Digital Building Logbooks for Sustainable Communities | DCU Co-PI | 01/09/2023 - 28/02/2025
  • Renewable energy implementation plan for transition towards net-zero carbon in university campuses: a techno-economic feasibility study at Dublin City University | DCU-PI | 01/04/2023 - 01/03/2024
  • Aligning Energy Policy with Lived Experience to Deliver Interdisciplinary Solutions to Alleviate Energy Poverty | DCU PI | 01/01/2024 - 31/12/2027

Sustainable Development Goals