**Dahai Qi**

Dr. Dahai Qi is an assistant professor at Universite de Sherbrooke in Building Engineering. ´ He obtained his PhD in Building Engineering at Concordia University in 2016. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies at Concordia University. He graduated from Nanjing Normal University (China) with a bachelor's degree in Building Environment and Equipment Engineering in 2006 and a Master's degree in Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning. In 2018, he joined the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at the Universite de Sherbrooke. Dr. Qi focuses on studying resilient cooling and heating technologies to ´ mitigate climate change impacts and building fire safety. As a Principal Investigator, he has obtained funding from the CFI-John R. Evans Leaders Fund, NSERC Discovery, FRQNT-New Research Program, etc. He co-leads Subtask C-Field Studies for the IEA-EBC Annex80 Project-Resilient Cooling of Buildings. He was and still is the guest editor of many journals, such as the *Journal of Energy and Building*, etc.
