Dr. Marwa Dabaieh
Dr. Marwa Dabaieh is an architect and BioGeometry® practitioner. Her expertise is in sustainable and environmentally conscious architecture. Worked for the last 20 years in the field of zero emission and passive earth buildings, sustainable architectural conservation, climate responsive design and climate neutral architectural design. She is a licensed architect since 2001 and received her bachelor’s degree in architecture from Egypt then earned a master’s degree in environmental planning and design followed by a PhD in conservation of vernacular architecture in 2011 from Lund University in Sweden.
Dr. Dabaieh research focus is passive and carbon neutral low-tech vernacular methods and their adaptation for contemporary energy efficient and zero carbon building practice. Mainly she tends to apply transdisciplinary approaches in her research work following a human centered participatory design method. She received the Swedish Elna Bengtssons foundation prize for scientific research in 2012 for her PhD project. She has published over 65 manuscripts and four books beside lecturing in the fields of vernacular architecture, sustainable and environmental design, energy efficient buildings, zero emission design, carbon neutral architecture, sustainable conservation, design and build with natural materials and BioGeometry®.
As a practitioner, Dr. Dabaieh participated in several design projects in Egypt, MENA region and Europe. In 2018, she was appointed as full professor in sustainable and environmental architecture at Aalborg university in Denmark where she was the head of the sustainable architecture research lab. Currently she is a Docent and associate professor at Malmö University in Sweden, working in a Crafoord funded project on climate resilient architecture called ‘Z free home’ while continuing to work for the minus carbon and plus energy refugee shelters and a FORMAS funded project on climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies for people at the margins.