Mattheos Santamouris, the Anita Lawrence Professor of High Performance Architecture at the University of New South Wales, Australia, discusses the impending overheating crisis due to global climatic change that we are facing, his outlook and perhaps the most urgent strategy for counteracting and adapting to it.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:11 Guest Introduction
1:35 Greece Travel Tips
3:47 Mat’s passion for travelling
4:52 Different environments for character shaping
7:00 Mat’s experience in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
7:58 Direct transfer of technology is suicide
8:36 Long-term implications of urbanization and climate change
11:16 The housing crisis and decarbonization
13:32 Economic impacts of urban overheating
16:23 Health impacts of urban overheating
17:18 Environmental impacts of urban overheating
18:23 It’s a financial and economic problem, not technological
20:04 Bigger problem in the global south
25:54 What is high-performance architecture?
27:57 Decarbonizing sustainably
33:43 From physicist to high-performance architecture
36:17 Energy poverty
39:57 The journey of research implementation
43:50 An important principle for research integrity
44:57 The role of markets and green investments
53:17 Cool materials
1:00:45 Integrating mitigation tech in cities
1:04:17 How cool materials were initially implemented?
1:10:30 Q&A Start
1:10:43 If you had a magic wand?
1:11:35 Key event, person, book
1:13:51 Biggest challenge in career to date
1:17:22 Time management
1:18:50 Advice for young researchers
1:24:19 Where can people reach you?
1:25:03 Final Message
1:25:35 Outro

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Juan Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez, Associate Professor at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia shares how data scarcity is not a limitation, but rather, an opportunity for innovation in both the wastewater system and his current topic, nature-based solutions. We explore his passion for his country Colombia and career-long passion case study, Bogotá.

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Janine Bolliger, senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and lecturer at the University of Zurich discusses the deeper subtleties behind the term 'biodiversity' and her recent work on how light pollution affects non-humans, namely bats and insects. We also delve deeper into what needs to be done to make cities more ecologically sustainable in light of global biodiversity loss.

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Veljko Prodanovic, a senior researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia, discusses the intricacies of designing sustainable vertical greenery, which are thirsty, but, ironically, more beneficial in dry climates. We also touch upon how to design blue-green infrastructure to be 'culturally-inclusive' in order to build community ownership and stewardship as a way to drive uptake and implementation of new research outcomes in this field.

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Dr. Liah Coggins, an environmental engineer from the University of Western Australia shares how she has created impact in the water industry with a simple piece of technology and the growing complexity that engineering research and education need to embrace if we want to create innovative solutions. Under the mentorship of our guest from Episode 11 and through her own experiences over the last decade, Liah has forged her own approach and career path that diverges from stereotypical academic to a cake- and fun-loving engineer and educator.

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Anas Ghadouani, professor in environmental engineering at the University of Western Australia, limnologist and overall advocate for collaborative learning and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals paints a picture of how he is constantly learning and embedding fun, entertainment and learning into his research and teaching work. We delve into a connected story around a range of topics from water quality in lakes to multidisciplinary work, teaching, ChatGPT and, of course, food!

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Daniele la Cecilia, a Maria Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral resresearch fellow from the University of Padova, Italy recounts his journey, combining his passions for water and food towards technological progress in agriculture. We cover the topic of plant protection products and new potential future pathways for agriculture, in particular the role of greenhouses that Daniele is now tackling as part of his ongoing research and with the interdisciplinary skill sets he has acquired along his research journey.

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Ana Deletic, professor in urban stormwater and Executive Dean of Engineering at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) shares her remarkable journey from former Yugoslavia to Australia in urban stormwater management, water sensitive urban design and urban nature-based solution technologies, good modelling practices, women in engineering and mentorship of young and aspiring researchers. Join me as I reconnect with my former PhD supervisor and relive some of the fun quirks of my own early research journey.

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Associate Professor Megan A. Farrelly, a human geography and the Associate Dean of Graduate Research from the Faculty of Arts, Monash University Australia, discusses her transition from the physical to the social sciences and 15 years of experience in urban water governance research. We delve deep into the institutional challenges that have surrounded the story and journey towards Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), the Australian term for nature-based solutions in Melbourne Australia. Megan also provides a gentle introduction into the art of qualitative research and some early comparisons with the energy sector.

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Dr. Abishek Narayan, research scientist at the Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development (SANDEC) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) shares his journey through the rapidly evolving field of urban sanitation planning in the global south. From humble beginnings in engineering and rowing in his river in Chennai India to current uptake of the Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) philosophy, Abishek reflects on how and what kinds of integrated approaches are necessary if we want to ensure clean water for the future. He also enforces how there are no 'silver bullets' or one-size-fits-all solutions to our global challenges and how his own journey has helped him embrace this.

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