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Matthaios Santamouris AM is a Greek-Australian physicist and building scientist. He holds the Anita Lawrence Chair in High Performance Architecture and is a Scientia Distinguished Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia.[1][2] He was previously a professor of physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece.[1] His research focuses on urban overheating, the urban heat island effect, passive cooling, building energy performance, heat-mitigation materials, and the effects of urban climate on human health and the built environment.[1][3]
Santamouris is one of the two editors-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Energy and Buildings.[4]
Editorial work
[edit]Santamouris is one of the two editors-in-chief of Energy and Buildings, published by Elsevier, alongside Jianlei Niu of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. UNSW additionally lists him as an associate editor and editorial-board member of other peer-reviewed journals in the fields of energy, buildings and the environment.
Early life and education
[edit]Santamouris was born in Athens to parents from Tinos and Crete.[5] He earned a diploma in physics and a PhD in energy physics from the Physics Department of the University of Patras in Greece. He also completed a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in energy physics at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in France.[1]
Research
[edit]Santamouris works on urban climate and the energy performance of buildings. His research addresses the magnitude and drivers of urban overheating and the urban heat island, and the development and assessment of mitigation technologies such as reflective ("cool" and sub-ambient "super cool") and fluorescent materials, cool roofs and pavements, green roofs, and passive and hybrid cooling of buildings. He has also studied the effects of urban overheating on energy consumption, heat-related health outcomes, and vulnerable populations. He was a senior author of a 2024 study in Nature Cities that modelled heat-mitigation strategies for a precinct of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, assessing 3,323 buildings and estimating peak summer temperature reductions of up to 4.5°C.[6][7] He also contributed to the 2017 Cooling Western Sydney study, commissioned by Sydney Water, which examined the use of water and reflective materials to mitigate urban heat.[8]
Awards and honours
[edit]In 2026 Santamouris was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the King's Birthday Honours, "for significant service to architecture, energy and environmental quality".[9][10] In the same year he was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).[11] He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.[12]
In 2024 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) organisation in recognition of his contribution to sustainable architecture and urban overheating mitigation,[13] and in October 2024 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Cyprus.[14]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Professor Matthaios Santamouris". UNSW Research. University of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "Professor Matthaios Santamouris". UNSW. University of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "Mattheos Santamouris: Environmental Sciences H-index & Awards – Academic Profile". Research.com. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "Energy and Buildings – Editorial Board". ScienceDirect. Elsevier. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "Almost a dozen Greek Australians receive 2026 King's Birthday Honours". Neos Kosmos. 7 June 2026. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "Quantifying the energy impact of heat mitigation technologies at the urban scale". Nature Cities. 2024. doi:10.1038/s44284-023-00005-5.
- ↑ "Study reveals construction materials capable of cooling one of the world's hottest cities". Green Review. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "Sydney Water and UNSW collaborate to cool Western Sydney". Australian Water Association. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "UNSW community recognised with King's Birthday Honours". UNSW Newsroom. University of New South Wales. June 2026. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "2026 King's Birthday Honours List – Order of Australia" (PDF). Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. June 2026. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "RIBA announces 27 new Honorary Fellows". Royal Institute of British Architects. March 2026. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "New Fellows of the World Academy of Art and Science Announced 2026". World Academy of Art and Science. 2026. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "UNSW Professor Mat Santamouris honoured with 2024 PLEA Lifetime Award". Architecture & Design. 10 July 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2026.
- ↑ "Award ceremony conferring an honorary doctorate of the Faculty of Engineering on Professor Matthaios Santamouris – 30 October 2024". Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. University of Cyprus. 30 October 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2026.