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Bureau Members

In November 2025, the ISCES Board election took place. We are pleased to introduce the members of the 2025 -2028 board.

Tor Broström – President (Schweden)

Tor Brostrom is professor in Building Conservation at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University and a PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. With a background in engineering his research is about energy efficiency, indoor climate control and climate change adaption for historic buildings. His research activities include:

• Scientific coordinator of the Swedish National R&D Program on Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings 2007-2024. 
• Co-convenor of the CEN working group on European Guidelines for Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings 
• Chairman and organizer of the conference Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings 2018.
• Scientific co-coordinator of the EU 7th Framework Program project Climate for Culture.
• Work package leader in the EU 7th Framework Program  EFFESUS – Energy Efficiency for EU Historic Districts Sustainability.  
• Task leader in the International Energy Agency Task Group on deep renovation of historic buildings towards lowest possible energy demand and CO2 emission

Scientific publications: ‪Tor Brostrom – ‪Google Scholar

Member of the Swedish National Committee of ICOMOS

Philipp Hesse – Secretary (Denmark)

Philipp Hesse is a German architect based in Denmark, whose work operates at the intersection of contemporary architectural practice, heritage conservation, and the study of historic built environments. He is the founder of HEJ arkitekter (est. 2018) and served as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt from 2021 to 2024, teaching building documentation and historic construction techniques.

His professional and research activities focus on the relationship between modern design approaches and the material, structural, and cultural dimensions of historic architecture.

Hesse is a board member of ICOMOS Denmark and a member of the International Scientific Committee ISCES. He contributes on behalf of ICOMOS to the European research project FuturHist, which explores future-oriented methodologies in heritage practice. He also serves as chair of the association Halbes Schloss Langenleuba-Niederhain and as deputy chair of the Interessengemeinschaft private Schlösser, Burgen und Gutsanlagen in Thüringen.

Since 2023, he has additionally been a member of the research and discussion platform Encounter.

Member of the Danish National Committee of ICOMOS

Khalid EL HARROUNI – Vice President (Morocco)

Khalid EL HARROUNI is Full professor of civil engineering and computational mechanics. Deputy Director of Research at the Ecole Nationale d’Architecture (ENA), Rabat, Morocco.

Responsible of Doctoral Studies Centre “Architecture and related disciplines” of the ENA and Scientific coordinator of the research theme “Sustainability in architecture and urbanism”.

Editor in Chief of African and Mediterranean Journal of Architecture and Urbanism (AMJAU) https://revues.imist.ma/index.php?journal=AMJAU

Expert member and Vice president of the International Scientific Committees on the Analysis and Restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage (ICOMOS ISCARSAH) and on the Energy and Sustainability (ICOMOS ISCES).

More than 30 years research and professional experience in civil engineering, urban planning, buildings energy efficiency, advanced computational techniques and heritage architecture.

Flavia Kiperman – Vice President (Australia)

Flavia Kiperman is the Asia Pacific Heritage Lead at SLR Consulting, where she leads a team delivering heritage advice, strategies, impact statements, and assessments. She holds qualifications in architecture and urban design, with over 25 years of professional experience. Flavia has an MSc. in World Heritage and Urban Growth, an MSc. in History and Cultural Heritage Conservation, and is a 2024 Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is recognised for her ability to balance community values with the need for good design within complex urban contexts.

Her key project experience includes preparing the Heritage Chapter for the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia and writing a number of Cultural Landscape Management Plans, including for Cossack Townsite, Strawberry Hill Barmup and Wonnerup House, addressing the challenges of climate change impacts on heritage places.

Flavia served as Vice-President of Australia ICOMOS (2022–2023) during the ICOMOSGA23 and remains an active member of the ICOMOS Climate Action Working Group and on International Scientific Committees on Cultural Landscapes and Energy and Sustainability. With extensive experience in Australian heritage legislation and consulting practice, Flavia brings a deep understanding of heritage management across diverse cultural, environmental, and planning contexts.

Member of the Australian National Committee of ICOMOS

Nathalie Vernimme – Vice President (Belgium)

Nathalie Vernimme is Advisor Research Program at Flanders Heritage Agency (FHA), the regional authority for immovable heritage in Flanders, Belgium and obtained a master in history (KUL 1995) and a bachelor in history of art and archaeology (KUL 1996). Miss Vernimme is expert member to ISCES since 2012, Belgian focal point for the Quality Principles and member of the ICOMOS Expert Group on the Implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) in the Built Heritage Sector since 2023. She represents Belgium in CEN TC 346 conservation of cultural heritage WG 8 “Energy efficiency of protected buildings” since 2011, is member of the board of “WTA Nederland-Vlaanderen” (WTA-International Association for Science and Technology of Building Maintenance and the Preservation of Monuments) since 2013  and is board member of JPI Cultural Heritage since 2016. From 2019 to 2022 she joined the European OMC group of Member States’ experts on Strengthening Cultural Heritage Resilience for Climate Change. Miss Vernimme is author and initiator of several regional studies on sustainability and heritage buildings.

Member of the Belgian National Committee of ICOMOS