About Me
Hello there! I'm Monica Pena. Originally from Colombia, I moved to South Korea in 2008 to pursue Civil and Environmental Engineering at
KAIST. After completing my MSc, I had the opportunity to contribute to La Sabana University's then-new bachelor’s
Civil Engineering programme.
My goal? To transform data into actionable insights. Currently, I'm an assistant professor at the University of Twente, where I'm exploring urban analytics. I’m passionate about unravelling the complexities of the built environment through data-driven techniques.
My goal? To transform data into actionable insights. Currently, I'm an assistant professor at the University of Twente, where I'm exploring urban analytics. I’m passionate about unravelling the complexities of the built environment through data-driven techniques.
Expertise
Earth & Environmental Sciences
# Data Acquisition
# Heat Island
# Urban Planning
Business & Economics
# Heat Island
# Urban Planning
Engineering & Materials Science
# Hot Temperature
# Pavements
# Urban Planning
Organisations
Publications
Recent
Pena Acosta, M. (2023).
Demystifying the urban heat island phenomenon: A data-driven approach. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente.
https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036558730
Pena Acosta, M.
, Vahdatikhaki, F.
, Santos, J.
, & Dorée, A. G. (2023).
A comparative analysis of surface and canopy layer urban heat island at the micro level using a data-driven approach.
Sustainable Cities and Society,
99, Article 104944. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104944
Pena Acosta, M., Dikkers, M.
, Vahdatikhaki, F.
, Santos, J.
, & Dorée, A. G. (2023).
A comprehensive generalizability assessment of data-driven Urban Heat Island (UHI) models.
Sustainable Cities and Society,
96, Article 104701.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104701
Pena Acosta, M.
, Vahdatikhaki, F.
, Santos, J.
, & Doree, A. (2022).
A framework for a comprehensive mobile data acquisition setting for the assessment of Urban Heat Island phenomenon. In T. Linner, B. García de Soto, R. Hu, & I. Brilakis (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (pp. 1-8). International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction.
https://doi.org/10.22260/ISARC2022/0003
Pena Acosta, M.
, Vahdatikhaki, F.
, Oliveira dos Santos, J. M., Hammad, A.
, & Doree, A. (2021).
A generalizability analysis of a data-driven method for the Urban Heat Island phenomenon assessment. In
Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC) (pp. 73-80)
https://doi.org/10.22260/isarc2021/0012
Pena Acosta, M.
, Vahdatikhaki, F.
, Santos, J., Hammad, A.
, & Dorée, A. G. (2021).
How to bring UHI to the urban planning table? A data-driven modeling approach.
Sustainable Cities and Society,
71, Article 102948.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.102948
Pena Acosta, M.
, Vahdatikhaki, F.
, Santos, J.
, & Dorée, A. G. (2020).
A conceptual framework for more efficient simulation of the interplay between road pavements and the Urban Heat Island phenomenon. In L-C. Ungureanu, & T. Hartmann (Eds.),
EG-ICE 2020 Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering: 1st–4th July 2020, Online, Proceedings (pp. 264-274). Berlin University Press.
Ibragimova, E.
, Pena, M., & Thompson, M. K. (2019).
The evolution of Sihwa dam: A formal design theory perspective. In
International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering, ICCEE-2009
UT Research Information System
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Courses Academic Year 2023/2024
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex
(building no. 20)
De Horst 2
7522LW Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands