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Plenary Speaker Prof. Edward Ng | Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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Biography: Prof. Edward Ng is Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is the first incumbent of the Yao Ling Sun Endowed Chair in Architecture. He specializes in Green Building, Environmental and Sustainable Design, and Urban Climatology for City Planning. As an environmental consultant to the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Professor Ng developed the performance-based daylight design practice note, the Air Ventilation Assessment Technical Guidelines, and the Urban Climatic Maps for City Planning. Professor Ng has published over 500 papers and 3 books. He has twice received the International Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), twice been honoured by the UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Jury Commendation for Innovation Award. He was the recipient of the 2010 Red Cross Humanitarian Award. His design project won the World Building of the Year Award at the 2017 World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Berlin. He has been honoured by Cambridge University with a prestigious Doctor of Science (DSc) degree. |
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Keynote Speaker Prof. Mat Santamouris | UNSW Sydney, Australia
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Biography: Prof. Mat Santamouris is a Professor of High Performance Architecture at UNSW, and past Professor in the University of Athens, Greece. Visiting Professor of Cyprus Institute, Metropolitan University London, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Bolzano University, Brunnel University, Seoul University National University of Singapore, and UITM Univ Malaysia. Past President of the National Center of Renewable and Energy Savings of Greece. Editor in Chief of the Energy and Buildings Journal, Past Editor in Chief of the Advances Building Energy Research, Associate Editor of the Solar Energy Journal, E- Prime, Journal of Low Carbon and Sustainable Energy, and Member of the Editorial Board of 24 Journals. Prof. Santamouris is a Highly Cited Researcher in the Clarivate ranking for 4 continuous years. |
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Keynote Speaker Prof. Nyuk Hien Wong | National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Biography: Prof. Wong Nyuk Hien is the Vice Dean of School of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Prof Wong has carried out extensive research in the Urban Heat Island effect in Singapore and to explore the various mitigation measures such as the effective utilization of urban greenery and cool roof materials. Prof Wong received honors includes Local Merit Scholarship, Public Service Commission, Singapore, Building Science Gold Medal, National University of Singapore. He has published 151 research articles in journals, and 21 book/monograph contributed as author/co-author. He is member of many national and international advisory board and editor board. |
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Keynote Speaker Prof. Zhaolin Gu | Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
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Biography: Prof. Zhaolin Gu is currently working as a Professor in Environmental Science and a previous Executive Dean of the School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, and Director of the Joint Center of Urban Climate and the Built Environment Research. He is an Associate Editor of Indoor and Built Environment and a member of the editorial board of Aerosol and Air Quality Research and Journal of Xian Jiaotong University. His current area of research focuses on multiple-phase flow in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Building Energy Consumption Integration, and Technology Development of Potential Energy Savings and Renewable Energy. |
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Keynote Speaker Prof. David Sailor | Arizona State University, USA
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Biography: Prof. David Sailor is the Director of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (SGSUP) at ASU. He directs the Southwest Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL), a US Department of Energy-funded center that integrates high-resolution observations, modeling, and civic engagement to provide new knowledge that addresses extreme heat and related urban environmental challenges. He served as the Director of the South Central Regional Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC) at Tulane, was the founding Director of the Green Building Research Laboratory at Portland State, and founding Director of the Urban Climate Research Center at ASU. Prof. David served as chair of the American Meteorological Society's Board on the Urban Environment (2008-2011) and as secretary of the board of the International Association for Urban Climate (2014-2018). He received the 2024 Landsberg Award from the American Meteorological Society. |
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Keynote Speaker Prof. Vishal Garg | Plaksha University, India
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Biography: Prof. Vishal Garg is a Chair Professor and the Director of Indorama Ventures Center for Clean Energy. Prof. Garg is enthusiastic about cool surfaces for mitigating the impact of Urban Heat Islands, and saving the lives of the urban poor, especially during heatwaves. He is currently supporting the development of a cool roof policy for Telangana with a target of 100 sq. km of cool roofs in Hyderabad. He is an editor board member of the International Building Performance Simulation, is an executive committee member of Alliance for an Energy-Efficient Economy and is a panelist for a chapter on sustainability in the National Building Code of India. He is also a project committee voting member in the ASHRAE’s Standing Standard Project Committee 90.2: Energy Efficient Design of Low-Rise Residential Buildings. |
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Keynote Speaker Prof. Andreas Matzarakis | Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Biography: Prof. Andreas Matzarakis wrote his habilitation on the 'thermal component of the urban climate'. Between October 2001 and July 2015, he was senior research associate at the University of Freiburg, where he was appointed Adjunct Professor in October 2006. From August 2015 to March 2024 he was head of the Research Centre Human Biometeorology of the German Meteorological Service. Between 1996 and 2014 he chaired the commission for climate, tourism and recreation the International Society of Biometeorology and he was vice-president of the International Society of Biometeorology between 2006 and 2009. Since 2016 he is the chairman or the German Society for the advancement of medical-meteorological research. |
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Keynote Speaker Prof. Hideki Takebayashi | Kobe University, Japan
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Biography: Prof. Hideki Takebayashi’s research interests include climate analysis for urban planning, and study on cooling effect of built-up area by cold drainage flow in summer nights. Prof. Takebayashi has published more than 170 research papers, 20 books, and 480 conference papers. He is currently a scientific member of Japan Heat Island Society, Japan Agricultural Meteorological Society, Japan Association for Wind Engineering, The Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan, Architectural Institute of Japan. Prof. Takebayashi has received research prizes from Japan Heat Island Society, The Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan, and Architectural Institute of Japan. |
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Keynote Speaker Prof. Veronica Soebarto | The University of Adelaide, Australia
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Biography: Prof. Veronica Soebarto from The University of Adelaide is the Initiative Leader in Green Urban Futures and Planetary Health of the Environment Institute and the Theme Lead in Sustainable Futures theme of Adelaide-Nottingham Alliance. She is the Associate Editor of the journal of Renewable Energy, Solar Energy Advances, Energy and Buildings. Her research interests span from age-friendly built environment, environmental performance assessments of buildings, building performance simulation, building monitoring, human thermal comfort, to the social dimension of sustainable design. |
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Keynote Speaker Prof. Priya Rajagopalan | RMIT University, Australia
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Biography: Prof. Priya Rajagopalan is the Director of the Post Carbon Research Centre for Infrastructure and the Built Environment and Associate Dean in the school of Property, Construction and Project Management. Her research interests span from sustainable building design, energy benchmarking and labelling, urban heat island, building performance simulation, indoor air quality, lighting and acoustics to citizen science in urban microclimate monitoring, mitigation and adaptation. As an internationally recognized expert in the field of building energy and indoor environmental performance and urban climatology, she has secured larges competitive grants, led multidisciplinary teams and developed new knowledge and innovative methods for climate change mitigation and adaptation which are adopted by the industry, communities and governments. |
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Keynote Speaker Prof. Anna Laura Pisello | University of Perufia, Italy
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Biography: Prof. Anna Laura Pisello is Professor of buildings physics and energy system at University of Perugia and founder of the Environmental Applied Physics Lab. She is author of more than 150 international refereed journals. She won seven international academic awards and European projects under the framework of Horizon 2020 program. She is the Associate Editor of Solar Energy, editorial board member in several international journals, e.g. Energy and Buildings, Energy research and social science, etc. Her research interests cover innovative smart materials for building envelope multifunctional optimization and thermo-physics characterization, and indoor-outdoor microclimate for environmental comfort and energy saving, with dedicated attention to dense urban areas and city resilience to climate change. |
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Keynote Speaker Prof. Alberto Muscio | Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy |
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Biography: Prof. Alberto Muscio from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia is the director of the Energy Efficiency Laboratory (EELab) of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, president of the Italian Association for Thermophysical Properties (AIPT). He graduated cum laude in Engineering of Materials at Modena and then got a Ph.D in Thermal Fluids from the University of Bologna. His research is focused on energy efficiency of buildings and HVAC systems, measurement of thermophysical properties, development and testing of surfaces with high solar reflectance. |