RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Impacts of the built environment on human health and wellbeing
  • Healthy building design
  • Indoor environmental quality and indoor air quality
  • Sustainable and low‑carbon construction materials and systems
  • Environmental data analysis for design decision‑making
  • Evidence‑based frameworks to support health‑centred policy and building regulation

 

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Mould exposure in Australian homes: from remediation to prevention
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jun 2026 - 31 May 2029
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  • GRANT
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Prasad D,
    • Santamouris M,
    • Ding L,
    • Oldfield P,
    • Paolini R
  • GRANT
    Strengthening Australian homes against climate risks
    Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Ltd (AHURI)1 Apr 2025
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  • GRANT
    The Power of People: Revolutionising Environmental Monitoring through Citizen Science
    The Council of the City of Sydney1 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Timber Active Envelopes: Modular Facades for Resilient Built Environments
    Office of Global and Research Engagement1 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    ARC Research Hub to Advance Timber for Australias Future Built Environment
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2023
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Cool canopies
    Nano Institute1 Jan 2023
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Eco-active building envelopes
    Nano Institute1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Brambilla A
  • GRANT
    InBuilt: decarbonising building portfolios
    Office of Global Engagement1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Globa A,
    • Drobot D,
    • Friedrich D,
    • Brambilla A,
    • Yildirim M
  • GRANT
    Increasing the building envelope resilience to moisture damages
    Victorian Building Authority1 Jan 2022
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  • GRANT
    SOAR Prize
    DVC Research1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Brambilla A
  • GRANT
    Modelling sustainable regional and remote Indigenous housing and maintenance
    Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Ltd (AHURI)1 Apr 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Brambilla A,
    • Torzillo P,
    • Lea T,
    • Grealy L
  • GRANT
    Liveable Precincts: for sustainable and healthy environments
    Commonwealth Bank of Australia1 Mar 2019
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  • GRANT
    Toward a more robust and comprehensive energy performance certificate to promote building sustainability
    Office of Global Engagement1 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gocer O,
    • Brambilla A,
    • Chambers J,
    • Cozza S,
    • K. Patel M
  • GRANT
    Reducing the energy consumed by buildings by hacking thermal sensation through the manipulation of illumination colour
    DVC Research1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hu W,
    • Davis W,
    • Brambilla A