Biography
Dr Geraldine Quek, PhD, is a Faculty Early Career Award (FECA) Fellow in the Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) pillar at SUTD. Geraldine’s research interests are in sustainable human-centric built environments with low energy consumption, with a focus on the built environment’s interactions with users’ health, comfort, perception, and performance. Geraldine directs the Human-Centric Urban Environments (HUE) Lab based at SUTD.
Geraldine graduated with a PhD in Architecture and Sciences of the City from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where she worked on improving visual comfort prediction models for indoor daylit conditions at the Laboratory of Integrated Performance in Design (LIPID) under the supervision of Prof Dr Marilyne Andersen and Dr Jan Wienold. Previously, she worked as a research assistant studying daylighting in office, residential and education buildings in the tropics with Prof Dr Alstan Jakubiec at the Design for Climate and Comfort Lab in SUTD, where she also obtained her BSc and MArch with distinction in Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) as one of the pioneering students.
HUE Lab: https://www.hue-lab.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2864-3860
Education
- PhD in Architecture and Sciences of the City (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
- MArch in Architecture and Sustainable Design
- BSc in Architecture and Sustainable Design
Selected Publications
- Quek, G., Wienold, J., Khanie, M. S., Erell, E., Kaftan, E., Tzempelikos, A., Konstantzos, I., Christoffersen, J., Kuhn, T., & Andersen, M. (2021). Comparing performance of discomfort glare metrics in high and low adaptation levels. Building and Environment, 206, 108335.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108335
- Quek, G., Wienold, J., & Andersen, M. (2021). User evaluations of contrast-dominant discomfort glare in dim daylit scenarios: Preliminary findings. CIE 2021 Midterm Meeting & Conference. Living with Light, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.https://doi.org/10.25039/x48.2021.OP22
- Quek, G., Wienold, J., Khanie, M. S., Erell, E., Kaftan, E., Tzempelikos, A., Konstantzos, I., Christoffersen, J., Kuhn, T., & Andersen, M. (2021). Comparing performance of discomfort glare metrics in high and low adaptation levels. Building and Environment, 206, 108335.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108335
- Quek, G., Wasilewski, S., Wienold, J., & Andersen, M. (2021). Spatial evaluation of potential saturation and contrast effects of discomfort glare in an open-plan office. Building Simulation 2021 Conference.
- Jakubiec, J., Quek, G., & Srisamranrungruang, T. (2021). Long-term visual quality evaluations correlate with climate-based daylighting metrics in tropical offices – A field study. Lighting Research & Technology, 53(1), 5–29.https://doi.org/10.1177/1477153520926528
- Quek, G., & Jakubiec, J. A. (2019). Building Climate-based Daylighting Models Based On One-time Field Measurements. Building Simulation 2019, 966–973.https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2019.210105
- Quek, G., & Jakubiec, J. A. (2019). Calibration and Validation of Climate-Based Daylighting Models Based on One-Time Field Measurements: Office Buildings in the Tropics. LEUKOS, 17(1), 75–90.https://doi.org/10.1080/15502724.2019.1570852
- Jakubiec, J. A., Srisamranrungruang, T., Kong, Z., Quek, G., & Talami, R. (2019). Subjective and Measured Evidence for Residential Lighting Metrics in the Tropics. 1151–1159.https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2019.210898
- Jakubiec, J. A., Quek, G., & Srisamranrungruang, T. (2018). Towards Subjectivity in Annual Climate-Based Daylight Metrics. Proceedings of BSO 2018, 8.
Awards
- Faculty Early Career Award (2023-2026)
- SUTD Graduate Merit Scholarship (SUTD-GEMS) (2018-2022)
- Best Poster Award (Subjective and Measured Evidence for Residential Lighting Metrics in the Tropics, IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2019)
- ETH-EPFL Summer School Grant (2019)
- SUTD Undergraduate Merit Scholarship (2012-2016)
Professional Affiliations
- Member of Daylight Academy Project – “Daylight Metrics and Measurements”
- Member of CIE Technical Committee TC2-86: “Glare Measurement by Imaging Luminance Measurement Device (ILMD)”
- Member of IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme Task: “Low Carbon, High Comfort Integrated Lighting”
- Reviewer for Energy and Buildings
- Reviewer for LEUKOS, Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society
- Reviewer for Building and Environment