Prof. Ali Cheshmehzangi

The University of Queensland, Australia

Biography:

Ali Cheshmehzangi is a Professor at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Queensland, leading research in architecture, design, and urbanism. Recognized by Stanford University as a top 2% global field leader for two consecutive years and among the top 30 scholars in urban sustainability, he is internationally known for his work on climate resilience and sustainable urbanism. Ali serves as Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Urban Sustainability book series and holds five academic degrees, including a PhD in Architecture and Urban Design. He has extensive university leadership experience and holds honorary roles at Hiroshima University’s Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS). Ali collaborates with major organizations such as the Asian Development Bank, UN-Habitat, ICLEI, Arup, Siemens, and others. He supervises numerous PhD students in urban sustainability and built environment research and welcomes new candidates interested in impactful, applied research. Ali is active internationally across Australia, Asia, Europe, North America, and Africa, focusing on meaningful research that benefits local communities with global perspectives. He has published over 500 papers and 26 books on sustainable urban development, with several receiving national and international awards, including recognition for his contributions to urban resilience and higher education.

Prof. Andreas Matzarakis

Universität Freiburg, Germany

Biography:

Andreas Matzarakis was born 1960 in Pentalofos, Province of Evros, Greece. He studied meteorology at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. His completed his dissertation on the bioclimate of Greece in 1995 at the Aristoteles University in Thessaloniki. Between 1995 and 2001 he was research assistant at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Freiburg. He 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.

Speech Title: Communicating extreme heat in the era of climate change

Prof. Linchuan Yang

Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Biography:

Dr. Linchuan Yang is a professor and deputy head of the Department of Urban and Rural Planning at the School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He obtained both PhD and MPhil degrees from The University of Hong Kong, and a bachelor's degree in engineering and another in science from Xiamen University, China. He is the recipient of the Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars from the Science & Technology Department of Sichuan Province, China.

Prof. Li Bao

Southeast University, China

Biography:

Li Bao, Ph.D. from ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), recipient of the Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award, has been teaching at the School of Architecture, Southeast University since 1995. She currently serves as the Associate Dean of the School of Architecture at Southeast University and Secretary-General of the Architecture Subcommittee of the Teaching Steering Committee for Architecture in Higher Education under the Ministry of Education. Bao Li has led the Ministry of Education’s comparative research project on Sino-foreign architectural curricula and teaching resources (awarded excellent upon completion). She has also presided over and participated in more than ten other national and provincial key teaching reform projects, including national-level projects on new engineering and new liberal arts research and practice, as well as emerging field curriculum research and practice. She is the chief editor of two series on design teaching research and six textbooks, two of which are part of the "13th Five-Year Plan" curriculum textbooks for civil engineering disciplines under the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. Additionally, she has co-edited one textbook on carbon neutrality for the Ministry of Education’s emerging fields and another "13th Five-Year Plan" civil engineering discipline planning textbook for the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. In recent years, Bao Li has actively explored "participatory" urban renewal. She has led three of the first national and provincial urban renewal demonstration projects, serving as the community planner for these projects. She has conducted nearly 20 studies in cities including Nanjing, Wuxi, Wuhan, and Changsha, advocating and implementing an approach to urban and rural human settlement renewal characterized by "small-scale, incremental, and refined" efforts that "focus on people, objects, and daily life."

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