Research Fellow · FWO Belgium

Shaping the Future of Smart, Sustainable, & Climate-Resilient Cities.

Doctoral Researcher at the University of Antwerp, working on digital city modelling and building performance simulation for climate-resilient urban environments.

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University of Antwerp

PhD candidate in Applied Engineering

About

Bridging Research & Real-World Impact

Dean's work thrives on connecting scientific research with real-world impact. He incorporates real-world case studies, such as collaborating with the City of Antwerp in Belgium, to ground his research in practical, actionable examples. He is part of EMIB, a multi-disciplinary research group focusing on the transformation of buildings, infrastructure, and the whole built environment in a sustainable society.

Built Environment

Digital city modelling & Building Performance Simulations

Sustainability

Climate resilience research

Global Impact

Belgium, UK, Spain, Philippines

Scholar

FWO-funded PhD fellow, EU-funded Erasmus Mundus MSc, PH-government funded BSc

News

Latest Updates

September 29, 2026

GeoSofia 2026: Presenting Research on Shared Walls in CityGML

Participation in GeoSofia 2026 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and a new ISPRS Archives paper on shared-wall modelling for urban building energy simulations.

August 2026

epJSON Viewer: a Public 3D Viewer for EnergyPlus Models

Explore EnergyPlus epJSON geometry in your browser with epJSON Viewer, publicly available through EMIB at the University of Antwerp.

June 23, 2026

Speaking at the CityGML Energy ADE 3.0 Workshop

A talk at TU Delft on automated shared-wall boundary resolution for district-level EnergyPlus simulations.

Apr 2026

Sustainable Development Journal Publication in collaboration with LIST

Fragmentation in European Urban Climate Change Research

Aug 2025

Presenting at Building Simulation Conference 2025

Urban-level Indoor Overheating Assessment

Feb 2025

New Publication in Building and Environment

Thermal Comfort and Urban Indoor Overheating

Nov 2024

Opening Remarks for User Interface PH 2024

Urban Experts for Sustainable Urban Development

Oct 2024

Awarded FWO Strategic Basic Research Funding

Competitive research grant from Research Foundation – Flanders

Publications

Research & Publications

Automated geometric decomposition and semantic enrichment of shared wall boundary surfaces in LoD 2 CityGML models for urban building energy modelling

ISPRS Archives, L-4/W3-2026, 107–114, 2026

Fragmentation Across Scales, Geography, and Climate Challenges in European Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Research: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review

Sustainable Development, 2026

Integrating CityJSON with building performance simulation: A case study of summer indoor overheating in Antwerp

Proceedings of Building Simulation 2025: 19th Conference of IBPSA, 2025

Thermal Comfort and Indoor Overheating Risks of Urban Building Stock – A Review of Modelling Methods and Future Climate Challenges

Building and Environment, 2024

Supply and Demand in the EU ETS: Powering Through the Cap

Sandbag Climate Campaign, 2023

Spend Smarter: A bit of advice on climate innovation financing

Sandbag Climate Campaign, 2022

Assessment of the Transferability of Quezon City Flood Evacuation Destination Choice Model to Marikina City

Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 2021

Series Type Vertical Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands for Dairy Farm Wastewater Treatment

Civil Engineering Journal, 2021

Projects & Experience

Industry Meets Academia

Research software · Public release

epJSON Viewer for EnergyPlus

Explore EnergyPlus model geometry in 3D in your browser. Developed by Richard Dean Morales at EMIB, University of Antwerp, and publicly available on EMIB’s GitHub Pages.

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