Sepideh Masoudinejad holds a Ph.D. in Architecture with a specialization in Environmental Psychology. She is currently a Research Officer at the National Research Council Canada (NRC), Construction Research Centre, where she works with the Human-Building Interaction team. Dr. Masoudinejad has extensive academic and research experience across Canadian and international institutions, complemented by professional practice through her own design studio, which has received multiple design awards. Her primary research focus is on residential psychology - an emerging interdisciplinary field, for which she recently co-edited a special issue in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.