Dusan Licina
EPFL Smart Living Lab HOBEL
HBL 2 4C (Halle Bleue)
Pass. du Cardinal 13b
1700 Fribourg
+41 21 695 72 14
Office: HBL 2 4C
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EPFL Smart Living Lab HOBEL
HBL 2 4C (Halle Bleue)
Pass. du Cardinal 13b
1700 Fribourg
+41 21 695 72 14
EPFL › VPA › VPA-AVP-DLE › AVP-DLE-EDOC › EDCE-GE
Website: https://go.epfl.ch/phd-edce
Expertise
Building ventilation and environmental control
Continuous IAQ/IEQ sensing and performance-based assessment
Energy–IAQ trade-offs and nexus
Health-oriented building standards and certifications
Mission
Dusan holds MSc. and BSc. degrees in mechanical engineering (University of Belgrade). He completed his joint Doctorate degree at the National University of Singapore and Technical University of Denmark, followed by a postdoctoral appointment at the University of California Berkeley. Prior to joining EPFL, he also served as the director of the Standard Development team at the International WELL Building Institute.
Dusan is the recipient of several honors and awards, including Yaglou award by the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) for significant research accomplishments on sustainable healthy buildings, and Ralph G. Nevin's award by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) given in recognition of significant accomplishment in the study of human response to the environment. He is editorial board member of the highly acclaimed Indoor Air journal. He is passionate about raising awareness about the air quality issues worldwide and developing buildings that are not only energy efficient, but that also contribute to «Michelin Star» indoor air quality.
Awards
Yaglou award
International Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate (ISIAQ)
2022
Ralph G. Nevins Physiology & Human Environment Award
2018
Journal articles
2026
Our Best Friends: How Dogs Alter Indoor Air Quality
Environmental Science & Technology. 2026. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.5c13324.2025
PANDORA: An open-access database of indoor pollutant emission rates for IAQ modeling
Journal of Building Engineering. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.jobe.2025.114216.Population exposure to ozone and its gas-phase oxidation products in 25 European cities
Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.138637.Ten questions concerning the economics of indoor environmental quality in buildings
Building and Environment. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.113227.Indoor air quality in swiss primary schools: impacts of mechanical ventilation and seasonal variation
Building and Environment. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.113146.A multidomain approach to neighbourhood typology for urban environmental studies
Sustainable Cities and Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.scs.2025.106378.Performance evaluation of radon measurement techniques in single-family homes
Indoor Environments. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.indenv.2025.100087.2024
Estimating Air Change Rate in Mechanically Ventilated Classrooms Using a Single CO<inf>2</inf> Sensor and Automated Data Segmentation
Environmental science & technology. 2024. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.4c02797.Indoor Emission, Oxidation, and New Particle Formation of Personal Care Product Related Volatile Organic Compounds
Environmental Science and Technology Letters. 2024. DOI : 10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00353.Resuspension of inhalable particles from clothing: A manikin-based chamber study
Building and Environment. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.112157.Exploring indoor environmental perception through questionnaires, physiological monitoring, and facial expression recognition
Indoor Environments. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.indenv.2024.100019.Nanocluster Aerosols from Ozone-Human Chemistry Are Dominated by Squalene-Ozone Reactions
Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 2024. DOI : 10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00289.Nanocluster aerosol formation via ozone chemistry on worn clothing: Influence of environmental parameters
Building And Environment. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111474.The impact of real-time carbon dioxide awareness on occupant behavior and ventilation rates in student dwellings
Energy And Buildings. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114132.Influence of Ventilation on Formation and Growth of 1-20 nm Particles via Ozone-Human Chemistry
Environmental Science & Technology. 2024. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.3c08466.What is NExT? A new conceptual model for comfort, satisfaction, health, and well-being in buildings
Building And Environment. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111234.Physiology or Psychology: What Drives Human Emissions of Carbon Dioxide and Ammonia?
Environmental Science & Technology. 2024. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.3c07659.Performance evaluation of radon active sensors and passive dosimeters at low and high radon concentrations
Building And Environment. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.111154.Evaluating the impact of indoor aerosols on the performance of real-time radon sensors
Frontiers in Built Environment. 2024. DOI : 10.3389/fbuil.2024.1407499.2023
European residential ventilation: Investigating the impact on health and energy demand
Energy And Buildings. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113839.Size-resolved inhalation intake fractions for particles released from human activities in residential indoor environments (vol 244, 110763, 2023)
Building And Environment. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.111026.Deposition of inhalable particles onto human clothing: A manikin-based chamber study
Building And Environment. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110986.Investigation of indicators for personal exposure and occupancy in offices by using smart sensors
Energy And Buildings. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113539.Size-resolved inhalation intake fractions for particles released from human activities in residential indoor environments
Building And Environment. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110763.Adequacy of stationary measurements as proxies for residential personal exposure to gaseous and particle air pollutants
Environmental Research. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116197.Energy, SBS symptoms, and productivity in Swiss open-space offices: Economic evaluation of standard, actual, and optimum scenarios
Building And Environment. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110565.Optimal sensor placement for personal inhalation exposure detection in static and dynamic office environments
Building And Environment. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110459.Comparison of two methods for bioaerosol sampling and characterization in a low-biomass chamber environment
Building And Environment. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110458.Influence of outdoor air pollution on European residential ventilative cooling potential
Energy And Buildings. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113044.Human personal air pollution clouds in a naturally ventilated office during the COVID-19 pandemic
Building And Environment. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110280.Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework
Buildings and Cities. 2023. DOI : 10.5334/bc.298.2022
Proxy methods for detection of inhalation exposure in simulated office environments
Journal Of Exposure Science And Environmental Epidemiology. 2022. DOI : 10.1038/s41370-022-00495-w.Integration of Indoor Air Quality Prediction into Healthy Building Design
Sustainability. 2022. DOI : 10.3390/su14137890.Outdoor PM2.5 air filtration: optimising indoor air quality and energy
Building & Cities. 2022. DOI : 10.5334/bc.153.Why has the COVID-19 pandemic generated such global interest from the engineering community?
Indoor Air. 2022. DOI : 10.1111/ina.13027.Comparing thermal performance of standard humanitarian tents
Energy and Buildings. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.112035.Longitudinal assessment of personal air pollution clouds in ten home and office environments
Indoor Air. 2022. DOI : 10.1111/ina.12993.2021
Ozone Initiates Human-Derived Emission of Nanocluster Aerosols
Environmental Science & Technology. 2021. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.1c03379.Development of indoor environmental quality index using a low-cost monitoring platform
Journal Of Cleaner Production. 2021. DOI : 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127846.Occupant satisfaction with indoor environmental quality, sick building syndrome (SBS) symptoms and self-reported productivity before and after relocation into WELL-certified office buildings
Building and Environment. 2021. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108183.Indoor air quality investigation before and after relocation to WELL-certified office buildings
Building and Environment. 2021. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108182.Particle release and transport from human skin and clothing: A CFD modeling methodology
Indoor Air. 2021. DOI : 10.1111/ina.12840.Human Emissions of Size-Resolved Fluorescent Aerosol Particles: Influence of Personal and Environmental Factors
Environmental Science & Technology. 2021. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.0c06304.2020
Performance assessment of low-cost environmental monitors and single sensors under variable indoor air quality and thermal conditions
Building and Environment. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107415.Fungal Contaminants in Energy Efficient Dwellings: Impact of Ventilation Type and Level of Urbanization
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020. DOI : 10.3390/ijerph17144936.The Indoor Chemical Human Emissions and Reactivity (ICHEAR) project: Overview of experimental methodology and preliminary results
Indoor Air. 2020. DOI : 10.1111/ina.12687.Special Issue Editorial: Green Buildings and Indoor Air Quality
Atmosphere. 2020. DOI : 10.3390/atmos11050441.Volatile organic compounds in 169 energy-efficient dwellings in Switzerland
Indoor Air. 2020. DOI : 10.1111/ina.12667.Energy, indoor air quality, occupant behavior, self-reported symptoms and satisfaction in energy-efficient dwellings in Switzerland
Building And Environment. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106618.Emissions of volatile organic compounds from interior materials of vehicles
Building and Environment. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106599.2019
Radon Investigation in 650 Energy Efficient Dwellings in Western Switzerland: Impact of Energy Renovation and Building Characteristics
Atmosphere. 2019. DOI : 10.3390/atmos10120777.Occupant health & well-being in green buildings: Trends and Future Directions
ASHRAE Journal. 2019.Use of IoT sensing and occupant surveys for determining the resilience of buildings to forest fire generated PM2.5
PLOS ONE. 2019. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0223136.2018
Clothing as a transport vector for airborne particles: Chamber study
Indoor Air. 2018. DOI : 10.1111/ina.12452.2016
Emission rates and the personal cloud effect associated with particle release from the perihuman environment
Indoor Air. 2016. DOI : 10.1111/ina.12365.Teaching & PhD
PhD Students
Taylor Oran Medina, Tianqi Liu, Khadija Sharaf Din, Ruijie Zhu, Enes Gusinjac, Maria Loizou, Hui Dong
Past EPFL PhD Students
Evangelos Belias, Maria Viviana Gonzalez Serrano, Seoyeon Yun, Joan Rey, Han-Yun Jhang
Courses
Energy and comfort in buildings
CIVIL-407
The course presents the fundamentals of energy demand in buildings while emphasizing the need for the comfort and well-being of occupants. In addition, prioritizations and trade-offs between energy and comfort are discussed.
Fundamentals of indoor climate
CIVIL-212
The indoor climate impacts building performance and human well-being. This course covers fundamental knowledge of indoor air quality and thermal environment, with their assessment methods. It also outlines strategies for creating comfortable, healthy, and energy-efficient spaces.
Indoor air quality and ventilation
CIVIL-460
This course covers the fundamentals of indoor air quality and ventilation strategies for optimal building air quality. Through lectures, discussions, modeling software, a hands-on group project, students explore indoor air pollutants, their properties, emission sources, and control mechanisms.