Professor Gesche Huebner has been appointed to lead the University of Exeter’s European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH), based at the University’s Penryn campus in Cornwall.

Professor Huebner comes from her role as Associate Professor in Healthy & Sustainable Built Environments at the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy, and Resources at University College London, (UCL) where her research and teaching has focused on the intersections between energy, buildings, and health and wellbeing with a focus on equitable solutions for a net-zero future.

She has recently been awarded two significant research grants that bring an equity and climate change lens into focus, areas that has substantial research gaps. With her expertise in built environments, Professor Huebner aims to generate more evidence on how buildings and energy use impact on health and wellbeing especially for marginalized groups in a changing climate.

At UCL, she also served as Departmental Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion with important  actions including instigating mental health training for all those in key student facing roles. She has also done a lot of work around promoting open, transparent and reproducible science particularly in applied, multidisciplinary research areas.

Gesche obtained a PhD in Psychology (visual cognitive psychology) from the University of Giessen, Germany, in 2010.