Dr Mahsan Sadeghi

CERC Postdoctoral Fellow

https://people.csiro.au/s/m/mahsan-sadeghi

Biography

Awarded a CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) fellowship, Dr Mahsan Sadeghi is a postdoctoral research fellow in Energy Business Unit. Her research area is around residential overheating and occupant thermal comfort aiming to develop a climate sensitive model for Australian overheating standard. With a background in architecture, Dr Sadeghi received her PhD. degree from The University of Sydney's School of Architecture, Design, and Planning for a thesis examining the potential for advanced ventilation design strategies to enhance residential thermal comfort.

Prior to joining CSIRO Mahsan was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) fellowship through the Centre for Air pollution, energy, and health Research (CAR). During that fellowship Mahsan held conjoint postdoctoral appointments with UNSW School of Built Environment (2020-21) and The University of Sydney's Indoor Environmental Quality Laboratory (2019-20). Mahsan’s research was an inter-disciplinary project on healthy built environment focusing on greening infrastructures and their impacts on urban overheating, energy demand, and associated health benefits.

Dr Sadeghi's other project was funded by NSW Department of Planning, Industry, and Environment (DPIE) in conjunction with NSW Health, for a study looking at the impact of adaptation strategies on mitigating urban heat, energy consumption, and their impact on population mortality. Prior to her postdoctoral studies, Mahsan was commissioned by the Government of Western Australia in 2019 to develop a rational and evidence-based “Government Housing Air-Conditioning Policy” (WA Department of Communities), based on an analytical methodology developed in her PhD thesis (Sadeghi et al., 2018).

Academic Qualifications

2018

PhD Degree
The University of Sydney

Achievements and Awards

2019-2021

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship
Centre for Air pollution, energy, and health Research (CAR)
2019-2020

Climate Change, Human Health, and Social Impacts Node Grant
NSW Department of Planning, Industry, and Environment (DPIE)
2019-2020

National Postdoctoral Training Grant
Centre for Air pollution, energy, and health Research (CAR)
2019-2020

Government Housing Air-conditioning New Policy – Commissioned Research Grant
Government of Western Australia, Department of Communities

Current Roles

CERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Building overheating; Occupant thermal comfort

Grants

2019-2020

Industry grant, Orosi Construction PTY LTD. “Optimised Zero Energy Residences in Sydney”.
2018-2019

Funded by CRC for Low Carbon Living in partnership with industry. “Indoor Environmental Quality and Natural Ventilation in St Spridon College”.
2017-2018

Funded by Sydney Water, and CRC for Low Carbon Living. “Application of Urban Heat Island Mitigation Technologies in west Sydney”.
2015-2016

Funded by industry in partnership with Centre for Infrastructure Engineering (CIE), Western Sydney University. “Energy Efficient Design of Wind Towers for Australian Residential Context”

Other highlights

2020-2021

Co-authored a position paper in response to Parliament of NSW Inquiry on “Submission on the New South Wales Protection of the Environment Operations Amendment (Clean Air) Bill 2021”. Jalaludin, B., Zosky, G., Cowie, C., Workman, A., Sadeghi, M., Morgan, G. (2021).
2019-2020

Lead-authored a response and attended a public hearing in Parliament of NSW on “Electric buses in regional and metropolitan public transport network in NSW”, on behalf of Centre for Air pollution, energy and health Research (CAR). Sadeghi, M., Porta Cubas, A., Cole-Hunter, T., (2020). https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/ladocs/submissions/66977/Submission%20-%2013.pdf
2019-2020

Developed a new policy for Government of Western Australia, Department of Communities on “Government Housing Air-Conditioning Policy”. Translation of research into policy.

Professional Experiences

2020-2021

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University of New South Wales
2019-2020

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University of Sydney
2018-2019

Architect Consultant
Renson Ventilation NV (Head quarter in Belgium)