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Overview

Mattheos Santamouris is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a strong focus on Environmental Engineering and Building and Construction. Their work spans several subfields, including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research topics prominently feature Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies, and Climate Change and Health Impacts. Additional areas of interest include Wind and Air Flow Studies, Urban Green Space and Health, and Air Quality and Health Impacts.

Mattheos Santamouris has contributed to multiple recent publications, which include the following:

  • Present and future energy consumption of buildings: Challenges and opportunities towards decarbonisation (2021, e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering Electronics and Energy)
  • Recent development and research priorities on cool and super cool materials to mitigate urban heat island (2020, Renewable Energy)

Other notable papers by coauthors include:

  • The use of artificial intelligence (AI) methods in the prediction of thermal comfort in buildings: energy implications of AI-based thermal comfort controls (2020, Energy and Buildings)
  • Integrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human Life (2022, Earth's Future)
  • Indoor air pollution, physical and comfort parameters related to schoolchildren's health: Data from the European SINPHONIE study (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)

The researcher collaborates frequently with colleagues such as Riccardo Paolini, Ansar Khan, Jie Feng, Samira Garshasbi, and Hassan Saeed Khan.

Their work has been published in several recurring academic venues, including:

  • Energy and Buildings (23 publications)
  • Solar Energy (18 publications)
  • Building and Environment (12 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (7 publications)
  • Climate (7 publications)

Mattheos Santamouris has also authored book publications, including "Urban Overheating: Heat Mitigation and the Impact on Health" published by Springer Nature in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Cooling the cities – A review of reflective and green roof mitigation technologies to fight heat island and improve comfort in urban environments

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  • Using advanced cool materials in the urban built environment to mitigate heat islands and improve thermal comfort conditions

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  • On the impact of urban heat island and global warming on the power demand and electricity consumption of buildings—A review

    M. Santamouris;M. Santamouris;C. Cartalis;A. Synnefa;D. Kolokotsa

  • On the impact of urban climate on the energy consumption of buildings

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  • Using cool pavements as a mitigation strategy to fight urban heat island—A review of the actual developments

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  • Recent progress on urban overheating and heat island research. integrated assessment of the energy, environmental, vulnerability and health impact synergies with the global climate change

    M. Santamouris

  • On the energy impact of urban heat island and global warming on buildings

    M. Santamouris

  • Analyzing the heat island magnitude and characteristics in one hundred Asian and Australian cities and regions

    M. Santamouris

  • On the development, optical properties and thermal performance of cool colored coatings for the urban environment

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  • Cooling the buildings – past, present and future

    Mat Santamouris

  • Passive cooling of outdoor urban spaces. The role of materials

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  • Passive cooling dissipation techniques for buildings and other structures: The state of the art

    Mattheos Santamouris;Dionysia Kolokotsa

  • A study of the thermal performance of reflective coatings for the urban environment

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  • Synergies between Urban Heat Island and Heat Waves in Athens (Greece), during an extremely hot summer (2012).

    Dimitra Founda;Mattheos Santamouris;Mattheos Santamouris

  • Development and testing of thermochromic coatings for buildings and urban structures

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  • Heat Island Research in Europe: The State of the Art

    Mat Santamouris

  • Investigating and analysing the energy and environmental performance of an experimental green roof system installed in a nursery school building in Athens, Greece

    M. Santamouris;C. Pavlou;P. Doukas;G. Mihalakakou

  • The effect of the Athens heat island on air conditioning load

    S. Hassid;M. Santamouris;N. Papanikolaou;A. Linardi

  • Modeling and predicting building's energy use with artificial neural networks: Methods and results

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  • Passive and active cooling for the outdoor built environment – Analysis and assessment of the cooling potential of mitigation technologies using performance data from 220 large scale projects

    M. Santamouris;M. Santamouris;L. Ding;Francesco Fiorito;P. Oldfield

  • Innovating to zero the building sector in Europe: Minimising the energy consumption, eradication of the energy poverty and mitigating the local climate change

    Mat Santamouris

  • Experimental testing of cool colored thin layer asphalt and estimation of its potential to improve the urban microclimate

    Afroditi Synnefa;Theoni Karlessi;Niki Gaitani;Mat Santamouris

  • On the application of the energy balance equation to predict ground temperature profiles

    G. Mihalakakou;M. Santamouris;J.O. Lewis;D.N. Asimakopoulos

  • Forecasting diurnal cooling energy load for institutional buildings using Artificial Neural Networks

    Chirag Deb;Lee Siew Eang;Junjing Yang;Mattheos Santamouris;Mattheos Santamouris

  • Modelling the thermal performance of earth-to-air heat exchangers

    G. Mihalakakou;M. Santamouris;D. Asimakopoulos

  • On the use of bioclimatic architecture principles in order to improve thermal comfort conditions in outdoor spaces

    N. Gaitani;G. Mihalakakou;M. Santamouris

  • On the impact of urban overheating and extreme climatic conditions on housing, energy, comfort and environmental quality of vulnerable population in Europe

    Mattheos Santamouris;Dionysia Kolokotsa

  • Regulating the damaged thermostat of the cities—Status, impacts and mitigation challenges

    M. Santamouris

  • Thermal Analysis and Design of Passive Solar Buildings

    Andreas K. Athienitis;M. Santamouris

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna Laura Pisello
Anna Laura Pisello University of Perugia
Agis M. Papadopoulos
Agis M. Papadopoulos Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Franco Cotana
Franco Cotana University of Perugia
Gianluca Ranzi
Gianluca Ranzi University of Sydney
Constantinos A. Balaras
Constantinos A. Balaras National Observatory of Athens
Giuseppe Peter Vanoli
Giuseppe Peter Vanoli University of Molise
Georgios Kokogiannakis
Georgios Kokogiannakis University of Wollongong
Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Nektarios Chrysoulakis Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
D. N. Asimakopoulos
D. N. Asimakopoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Carlos Borrego
Carlos Borrego University of Aveiro

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