Paulina Wegertseder-Martínez earned a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Bío-Bío (2014). She is a full-time member of the academic staff of the Department of Design and Theory of Architecture since 2016, specifically in the undergraduate architecture degree program and in the postgraduate programs of the Master’s in Sustainable Habitat and Energy Efficiency and Doctorate in Architecture and Urbanism. Her main lines of research focus on the built environment and its relationship with comfort, well-being, and energy efficiency in buildings. She has participated in national and international research projects, producing relevant scientific publications. In the professional field, she works on consulting projects on energy efficiency and bioclimatic design for public and private services. In 2020, she was awarded the Wallonie-Bruxelles International scholarship for post-doctorate at the Catholic University of Louvain. She currently leads two research projects funded by the National Research and Development Agency of the Chilean Government.