Twan van Hooff is a Full Professor in Building Ventilation and chair of the Building Physics research group of the Unit Building Physics and Services (BPS) in the Department of the Built Environment at TU/e, and chairman of the Unit BPS since 2021. Twan’s areas of expertise include the experimental modeling and numerical simulation of ventilation flows, including related heat and mass transfer processes, with the overall aim to provide healthy, comfortable and energy-efficient buildings and other enclosures. His research topics cover, among other things, building and room ventilation, natural ventilation, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for the built environment, environmental conditions in controlled environment agriculture (CEA), pedestrian-level wind comfort, wind-driven rain, sport stadium aerodynamics, wind energy and climate change adaptation measures on the building scale. 

Twan van Hooff received his MSc in Architecture, Building and Planning in 2008, with a specialization in Building Physics (track ‘Physics of the Built Environment’). From July 2008 to July 2012, he was a PhD student at both the Building Physics and Services (BPS) at TU/e and the Building Physics Section of KU Leuven, Belgium (double doctorate supervised by prof.dr.ir. Blocken (TU/e) and prof.dr.ir. Baelmans (KUL)). In December 2012 he obtained his PhD (at TU/e with honors). For a publication not related to his PhD study, Twan received the Best Paper Award from the leading ISI journal Building and Environment (2011).

From 2012 to 2014 Twan was a postdoctoral researcher in the Climate Proof Cities research program. From October 2014 until September 2020, Twan was a Research Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) (personal grant) in the Building Physics Section of the Department of Civil Engineering at KU Leuven. From October 2015 he was an assistant professor in the unit Building Physics and Services of the Department of the Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology and from April 2020 he is an associate professor in the same group (full time from October 2020), focusing on building ventilation. As of October 1 2025, he is Full Professor in Building Ventilation and chair of the research group Building Physics. Since May 2021 he is also chairman of the Unit Building Physics and Services.

He has published 79 ISI journal papers, 18 of which as first author, and 111 papers in international conference proceedings so far. He is editorial board member of the Journal of Building Physics (2021-present) and the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics (2021-present), and reviewer for 62 ISI journals. In addition, he was member of the Scientific Committee for 17 international scientific conferences since 2011. Finally, he has been reviewer for research grants in, e.g., the Netherlands (NWO), Germany (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), UK (Natural Environment Research Council), and Hong Kong (Research Grants Council (RGC)). 

Since 2009 he has secured a range of national and international research grants (2nd and 3rd tier funding) and has been involved in over 26 collaborative research projects with a variety of companies (3rd tier funding). Last years, he has been active in the research programs CLAIRE (Clean Air for Everyone), P3Venti (Program for Pandemic Preparedness by Ventilation), and MIST (MItigation STrategies for Airborne Infection Control), Sky High - Vertical Farming: a revolution in plant production, Towards Smart Ventilation, NudgeFlow, and GreenControl.