Petra Liedl received her Dr-Ing. in Architecture in 2011 from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Germany and was awarded the Dr. Marschall-Award of the Department of Architecture for outstanding doctoral theses.
She has been a research associate at the Department of Building Climatology and Building Physics (TUM) and received a Ph.D. grant at the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering at TUM in 2007.
Since 2005, she has been a founding member and board member of the non-profit association ClimateDesign. From 2008 to 2009, she was an Associate in Neue Verantwortung, a foundation and think tank developing new socio-political ideas and practical solutions for Germany.
Through 2012-13, she has been serving as a Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. In addition to several articles and book chapters, Liedl is a co-author of “Buildings To Suit the Climate – A Handbook”, “ClimateDesign – Solutions for Buildings that Can Do More with Less Technology”, and “ClimateSkin – Building-skin Concepts that Can Do More with Less Energy”.
She developed, organized and was chair of the 2-day international symposium with excursion "EnergyXChange-Munich and Austin as regional centres for sustainable innovation" in October 2013 with representatives from Munich and Austin.
An outcome of the conference is a bilingual book with the same title, edited by Petra Liedl and published end of February 2016 at Beuth, Berlin and the joint UT/TUM application for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015. The Austin/Munich team was chosen with 19 other collegiate teams from more than 190 applicants worldwide. The project is called NexusHaus and was awarded during the competition last October in California: 4th place overall; 1st in energy balance; 2nd in affordability; 3rd in energy concept and 4th in marketability.