Dr. Seema Bhangar

Dr. Seema Bhangar serves as Principal, Healthy Buildings and Communities, for Innovation and Research at the U.S. Green Building Council. She is a visiting scholar at U.C. Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design Research. She specializes in indoor air quality, environmental health, and environmental sensing in buildings, and has conducted field research in homes, schools, and transport environments. Bhangar was previously a sustainability program manager at the commercial real estate firm WeWork, and a product manager at an environmental sensing technology startup, Aclima. She serves on the board of an independent nonprofit, the Indoor Air Institute. She has served on expert and advisory committees including for ASHRAE, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, the International WELL Building Institute, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and the U.S. General Services Administration. Bhangar was a postdoctoral research fellow at U.C. Berkeley, where she also completed a Ph.D. in environmental engineering and an M.S. in public health. She holds a B.A.S. from Stanford University.