ery.djunaedy

About Me

Ery Djunaedy is actually my given name. As many other Indonesians, I do not have surname nor family name. But since I lived outside Indonesia, I started to use my last name as my family name.

I was born in Lhokseumawe, North Aceh, in Aceh Province of Indonesia. But being an Acehneese, a nation proud of its migrating culture, I actually never lived in Aceh. I went to three primary schools in two cities, two junior high schools in two cities, and managed to hold on to only one high school. In the first twenty years of my life, I have already lived in five different cities as far apart as London and Helsinki. In between I also managed to master three different local languages, though I still cannot speak fluent Dutch after 4 years living there.

I got my basic degree (Sarjana Teknik, ST) in 1995 from the Department of Engineering Physics, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. I did my final year project in the Building Physics Lab in the department. I fell in love with building physics, and have never turned my attention to any other field of study. I also fell in love with a woman during my final years at the university. I managed to get a marriage certificate before I got my ST diploma.

I worked one year as Building Maintenance Engineer in Matahari Dept. Stores in Jakarta, Indonesia, with main task of developing maintenance program for the stores. I resigned after the maintenance program was running well.

I continued my study in 1997 at the National University of Singapore (NUS). I did the MSc on a part-time basis, while at the same time working as Research Assistant in the Indoor Air Quality Lab, Dept. of Building, NUS. I entered the world of building performance simulation in my involvement in the research project that uses Computational Fluid Dynamics to simulate the indoor air environment. I started to write papers to be published both in conferences and scientific journals. I got my MSc(Building Science) degree in 2000, three years after I set foot in Singapore, after completing my MSc dissertation on diffuser modeling for CFD. I stayed for another year in Singapore to complete the research project I was assisting.

In May 2001, I started the PhD research at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. I managed to complete this research ten days before the four-years-appointment as PhD candidate ends. Check my publication page for the softcopy of my PhD thesis.

I worked for two semesters as assistant professor at the Department of Architectural Engineering, United Arab Emirates University. I was teaching building physics subjects to architecture students.

I currently work as Research Scientist at the Integrated Design Lab, University of Idaho in Boise, Idaho. I am working as building simulation specialist as part of the team of consultants to give advice on how to save energy for building projects.

Please see my contact details here.