Martin Hendel, researcher in urban climatology

Martin Hendel is a researcher at LIED (Interdisciplinary Energy Research Institute) at Université Paris Cité and a faculty member at ESIEE Paris. At school, he was a good student with a love of maths and physics and he chose to enrol at a preparatory class that would enable him to enter an engineering school.

For his PhD, Martin chose a topic with high stakes for today’s major challenges: adapting cities to climate change. His aim is to find ways to make life in cities more bearable during heat waves by studying urban materials (pavements, buildings, etc.). Martin currently works in partnership with INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and Apur (Paris Urbanism Agency). He studies the links between health, urban planning and heat using an unusual mobile measuring device in the form of a rucksack worn by the participants!

Find out more about this researcher in the video below!

(video in french and subtitled in english)