Terri Peters

Biography

Terri Peters is an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. She is a registered architect in the UK, and holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from Aarhus Architecture School in Denmark. Her area of expertise is the human and social dimensions of sustainable buildings, and her research investigates the qualitative and quantitative aspects of healthy environments with a focus on daylight, air flow, thermal comfort, and access to nature. Her research is focused on understanding the relationships between the design of our physical, built environments and people’s behavior, wellbeing, and health in buildings.

Research Interests

• Thermal comfort.
• Relationships between built environments and people’s behavior.