
Janet Reyna
Senior Research Engineer
Janet.Reyna@nrel.gov
303-275-3218
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3336-2879
Dr. Janet L. Reyna joined NREL in 2018. Previously, she was an ORISE Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office supporting the Building Energy Modeling program. During her Ph.D., she received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and also spent a summer as a guest researcher at the Pontifica Católica Universidad del Perú in Lima. Dr. Reyna’s research focuses on environmental impacts of urban systems, and she aims to provide information for policy decision-making with her work. She has expertise in life cycle assessment, energy forecasting, building energy modeling, vehicle emissions simulation, and spatial analysis.
Research Interests
Urban-scale energy modeling
Climate change, future weather, and energy use
Modeling building and electric grid interactions
Building stock dynamics
Education
Ph.D. Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, Arizona State University
M.S.E. Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, Arizona State University
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Featured Work
Energy efficiency to reduce residential electricity and natural gas use under climate change, Nature Communications (2017)
Defining geographical boundaries with social and technical variables to improve urban energy assessments, Energy (2016)
Improving the Accuracy of Vehicle Emission Profiles for Urban Transportation Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Inventories, Environmental Science & Technology (2015)
The Growth of Urban Building Stock: Unintended lock-in and embedded environmental effects, Journal of Industrial Ecology (2015)