Julie Železná, Czech Technical University

Julie Železná is the head of the Sustainable Building research team at the University Center for Energy-Efficient Buildings (UCEEB) of the Czech Technical University, where she focuses on life cycle assessment (LCA) of building products, structures, and buildings, building sustainability, ESG, and related legislation. She graduated in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at CTU Prague. She spent one year studying at ENS Cachan University in Paris, and during her doctoral studies, she completed a three-month internship at the CSTB research institute in Grenoble. In 2013, she earned her Ph.D. for her work on environmental assessment of building materials. Julie is also involved in the development of the national building sustainability certification methodology SBToolCZ and is the chair of the technical standardization committee TNK 149 Sustainability of Buildings. In addition, she works on translating European standards in the field of building sustainability.