Dr. Yara Ayyad is an Assistant Professor in Architecture at Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan. She received her PhD (2020) and MSc (2016) in Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture from the University of Liverpool, UK, and her BSc (2014) in Architectural Engineering from Philadelphia University, Jordan. Yara has worked as a lecturer teaching environmental conscious design at building and urban scale. Specific research topics include CFD modelling, outdoor thermal comfort, airflow in urban spaces, and promoting architectural design through virtual reality (VR). Yara is currently the head researcher for a funded research project on the applications of VR on Architectural design at Al-Ahliyaa Amman University, Jordan.