Dr Magdalena Hajdukiewicz
Director, Construct Innovate
Magdalena is a chartered engineer, lecturer in energy systems engineering and director of Construct Innovate: Ireland’s national research centre for construction technology and innovation. Her research interests focus on sustainability and innovation in the built environment, building performance modelling and monitoring, computational fluid dynamics simulation, indoor environmental quality, and smart and sustainable construction.
She worked on a number of national and international research projects including Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Scheme with Oran Pre-Cast; EU Horizon 2020 projects such as Built2Spec, Hit2Gap and Geofit; Science Foundation Ireland nZEB-RETROFITproject; ‘Aerodynamic optimisation of cycling in para-sports’ PhD project (in collaboration with TU/e); and Science Foundation Ireland Industry Fellowship with Tobin Consulting Engineers.
Magdalena is a research fellow on a Horizon 2020 METABUILDING Labs project, which strives to unleash the innovation potential of SMEs in the construction sector. As a recognition of her research work, in 2018 Magdalena received the Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland Young Researcher Award.