Scientific Staff

Bjarne W. Olesen, Director
Professor, Ph.D.

Geo Clausen, Scientific Secretary
Associate Professor, Ph.D.

Gunnar Langkilde, Administrative Secretary
Associate Professor, M.Sc.

David P. Wyon
Professor, Ph.D.

Charles J. Weschler
Professor, Ph.D.

Jan Sundell
Professor, Dr.Med.Sci., M.Sc.Eng.

Arsen Melikov
Associate Professor, Ph.D.

Jørn Toftum
Associate Professor, Ph.D.

Carl-Gustaf Bornehag
Associate Professor, Ph.D.

Peter Strøm-Tejsen
Post Doc, Ph.D.

Gabriel Beko
Post Doc, Ph.D.

Pawel Wargocki
Associate Professor, Ph.D.

Lei Fang
Associate Professor, Ph.D.

Carsten Rode
Associate Professor, Ph.D.

Peter V. Nielsen
Professor, Ph.D.

Shengwei Zhu
Post Doc, Ph.D.

Jan Sundell
Professor, Dr.Med.Sci., M.Sc.Eng.

International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy
Technical University of Denmark, Building 402
DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark

Phone: +45 45 25 40 27
Fax: +45 45 93 21 66
Email: jas@byg.dtu.dk

Jan Sundell is a Swedish environmental scientist with a background in both engineering (M.Sc.Eng) and medicine (Dr.Med.Sc.). Before going into science, and becoming a professor within 12 years, he was responsible for building codes, and occupational health legislation in Sweden regarding indoor climate. During this time he wrote model building codes on ventilation and indoor climate for the Nordic countries, as well as for UN. In Sweden he has been deeply involved in governmental inquiries regarding allergies, and environment/health. As scientist he has conducted several large multidisciplinary studies on associations between indoor environmental factors and health. Especially, he has been searching for the causes of sick building syndrome symptoms, and for the increase in allergies/asthma.

He has initiated and led numerous European multidisciplinary reviews of the total scientific literature with regard to indoor climate and health, and has published around 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles in the last decade. He is a founding member of "The International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate" (ISIAQ), and of the "International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences". He is the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal "Indoor Air". In USA he is a member of the ASHRAE "Environmental Health Committee", and Standard 62.1 committee. He is appointed a "Distinguished Lecturer" for ASHRAE. He has had and has numerous appointments in research funding bodies within Environment/Health", and "Asthma, allergy" in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, EU and USA.

He has received several scientific awards including the "Nordic Indoor Climate Award" 1994, the "SCANVAC Prize 1999", and the "ROCKWOOL Prize" 2004.