Christoph Reinhart

Christoph Reinhart is a building scientist and faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches sustainable building design and environmental modeling in the Building Technology program. Additionally, Christoph leads MIT’s Sustainable Design Lab (SDL), an inter-disciplinary group with a grounding in architecture that develops design workflows, planning tools, and metrics to evaluate the environmental performance of buildings and neighborhoods. Christoph is also the head of Solemma, a technology firm that creates innovative environmental analysis software, and Strategic Development Advisor for mapdwell, a solar mapping company. Products originating from these workgroups are used in practice and education in over 90 countries. Christoph’s work has been recognized with various awards among them a Fraunhofer Bessel Prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2018), the IBPSA-USA Distinguished Achievement Award (2016), a Star of Building in Science award by Buildings4Change magazine (2013) and seven best paper awards. Mapdwell has been recognized with FastCompany’s Design by Innovation 2015 award for Data Visualization as well as a Sustainia 100 award.