Liliana Beltran, Ph.D., LEED-AP

Dr. Liliana Beltrán teaches courses in the areas of sustainability, energy, daylighting design and analysis, green buildings design tools and passive low energy architecture. Previously, she worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Building Technologies Division, and has taught at Texas Tech University, San Francisco’s California College of the Arts, University of Oregon, and the National University of Engineering of Lima. Dr. Beltrán is the recipient of two Fulbright Awards, a Progressive Architecture Research Award; two EPA P3 Awards; and an IES Robert Thunen Fellow. She has been a consultant to UNESCO’s Division of Cultural Heritage of Paris, France on the Restoration of the Kuwait National Museum, and to the Green Resource Center, City of Berkeley’s Best Builders Program. She is a Registered Architect in Peru, and a LEED AP. Recently, she was selected as a 2020-2021 Fulbright Japan Fellow. With a grant from the T3: Texas A&M Triads for Transformation, she is currently investigating about human-centric analysis of the visual and non-visual effects of daylight. The topics of research she focuses include occupant-based lighting design, virtual reality for integrated lighting performance-based design, daylight post-occupancy evaluation, adaptive strategies for climate change, and zero net energy strategies.

Dr. Beltran’s areas of interest are in sustainable architecture, green building design tools, performance-based parametric design, human-centric lighting design, virtual reality, energy efficient & daylighting analysis, advanced building facades, climate-responsive buildings, and vernacular architecture.