Dr. Esfand Burman is Associate Professor at the UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, Faculty of the Built Environment (The Bartlett). Esfand is a chartered engineer and member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CEng MCIBSE), member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (MASHRAE), and Certified Energy Manager (CEM) with the Association of Energy Engineers. His academic interests include energy and sustainability performance of buildings, post-occupancy evaluations, building energy performance simulation & calibration, and low carbon HVAC design.

Esfand is the author and co-author of several research papers and technical memoranda for the industry including CIBSE TM61-64 series on operational performance of buildings, and a winner of the Barker Silver Medal for the paper with the highest citations in the Journal of Building Services Engineering Research and Technology. He also teaches and supervises students for UCL flagship MSc programme Environmental Design and Engineering and the MEng programme in Engineering and Architectural Design, in addition to supervising PhD research students.