Dr Ivan Korolija is a Lecturer in Building Systems Modelling at the Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE) at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL. He is an expert in the energy performance of buildings with a particular focus on heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems (HVAC), data-driven building operation and control optimisation, and urban scale and stock-level building energy modelling and simulation. Ivan graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia where he specialised in HVAC systems. 

Ivan’s academic career started in 2006 at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, with undertaking PhD research on the energy efficiency of HVAC systems, funded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions. After the successful completion of this programme, Ivan stayed at De Montfort’s Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (IESD) as a Research Fellow in Energy Systems where he worked from 2012 to 2016.

Ivan joined UCL in 2016 where he started his research career within the Bartlett at the UCL Energy Institute (EI) as a Research Associate in Stock Level Modelling. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Building Systems Modelling at the IEDE in June 2017; the role he has been holding to date.

Before the commencement of his doctoral research, Ivan worked as a building services mechanical design engineer, and as an energy consultant on many international projects. He was involved in the design of sustainable building services for various building types, mainly non-domestic, such as sports facilities, hospitals, hotels, office buildings and multi-purpose shopping centres, where he passed through the complete design process from concept/detail design up to creating tender documentations.