Dr. Sneha Jain

Dr. Sneha Jain is a postdoctoral scholar in the Civil and Environmental Engineering school at Stanford University. Her research lies at the intersection of building technology, sustainability, human comfort, and wellbeing. She earned her PhD from EPFL in Switzerland, where she investigated the influence of eye physiology and color of daylight on human visual comfort in office environments. Sneha is an architect by training and have a background in building science and information technology. She was also a research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). Currently, her work at Stanford is on evaluating the impact of sustainable retrofitting on the wellbeing of low-income renters in affordable housing and on analyzing the impact of lighting exposure on older adults’ physical health to support aging in place.