Alina joined the Professorship of Architecture and Building Systems as a Postdoctoral Researcher in March 2022. Alina has a background in sustainable building design, life cycle assessment (LCA), life cycle cost analysis, building renovation, robustness assessment and sensitivity analysis. Her current research in the A/S group focuses on the analysis of embodied impact of building-integrated photovoltaic panels (BIPV) and gathering the database of the various BIPV components and their consequent impact. Her research is a part of the FCL module “Powering the City”, which is focuses on development of a holistic, multi-​scale and interdisciplinary approach for assessing large scale deployment of BIPV in urban contexts under different climatic, socio-​economic and urban conditions. Alina is also managing the development of a parametric real-time LCA tool called Bombyx. Besides her research work, Alina is teaching Master level students of MIBS and D-BAUG and supervising students in the Semester projects and Master theses.

In her PhD at the Chair of Sustainable Construction, ETH Zurich, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert, Alina developed a methodology for optimal and robust renovation solutions for Swiss buildings in terms of costs and environmental impacts over the building life cycle. Before her PhD, Alina gained an experience working as the energy performance engineer and graduated with M.Sc. in Energy-Efficient and Environmental Building Design from Lund University, Sweden. Alina’s research interests center around sustainability assessment and solutions to decrease the environmental impact from the construction and building industry.