Professor of Energy and Buildings
Modelling Lab
Ljubomir “Lubo” Jankovic has spent the past 35 years focusing on how environmental design of buildings can be improved using dynamic simulation, instrumental performance monitoring and utilisation of bio-based materials.
In September 2024 he was appointed as Professor of Energy & Buildings at Energy House Labs, the world leading energy performance research facility at the University of Salford, where he has a wide research agenda on improving building energy performance and reducing carbon emissions. Between 2018 and 2024, he held a position of Professor of Advanced Building Design at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, where he led a Zero Carbon Lab and was Director of a university-wide transdisciplinary Centre for Future Societies Research. Previously, he was Professor of Zero Carbon Design at Birmingham City University, UK, where he founded a Master’s programme on Zero Carbon Architecture and Retrofit Design. He also taught Behaviour of Complex Systems and Virtual Reality at the University of Birmingham and a short course on Embracing Complexity in Science and Society at the Universities of Liverpool and Salford. He has been a mentor of several PhD dissertations and a PhD Examiner in Spain, India, Pakistan and the UK.