Speaker

Dr. Puteri Shireen Jahn Kassim

Dr. Puteri Shireen Jahn Kassim is both an academician and a practicing specialist. She completed her doctorate at the University of Brighton. She is a senior Academician at the Faculty of Architecture and Environmental Design, International Islamic University Malaysia where she teaches and supervises PhD and Masters students on building technology, sustainable building, and energy-conscious design. An authority on computational simulations and green building standards, she has led companies and agencies to achieve their sustainability and low carbon emission targets. She is currently the lead supervisor in coordinating the steering committees on the Malaysian Government’s Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) and Public Works Department (JKR) to develop and launch an integrated carbon-based sustainable building rating assessment system for Malaysia. She sits on the editorial and peer review board of Elsevier’s International Journal of the Sustainable Built Environment and is on the Scientific Committee for the International CONVR Conferences. She is currently the head of Architecture and Environmental Subcluster of the Transciplinary Research Group on Sustainable Cities.