Rebecca has a passion for energy-efficiency and living sustainably. An Edmonton native, she has lived and worked around the world, learning about how people in different countries use and conserve energy. She obtained her BSc in Chemical Engineering at the University of Alberta and her MScTech in Energy Systems and Policies at Ecole des Mines de Paris. She started her career by designing heat exchangers and energy-efficient industrial processes in France, then moved back to Alberta to troubleshoot tailings ponds in the oil sands near Fort McMurray. She made the transition to low-energy buildings in 2016, working as a consultant in the sustainable buildings industry in Calgary. She then obtained her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Carleton University, specializing in Sustainable Building Energy Systems. Her experimental research focused on underground seasonal thermal storage for residential buildings in cold climates.
Before joining Retrofit Canada as Executive Director, Rebecca worked as a software engineer for the building energy modelling software, IES, improving and maintaining the physics simulation engine.
