Dr. Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini is an Associate Professor in Architecture and Urban Microclimate and the Director of Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies in the School of Future Environments at AUT. He is an architectural designer and an urban thinker with over 16 years of academic and professional experience in New Zealand, Canada, and Malaysia. His research primarily focuses on the future of buildings and urban areas through the lens of sustainable and healthy design and smartification. He is interested in the impacts of architectural design on end-users and the influence of buildings on the urban microclimate. He has extensively published in many top-ranked journals in his field, with a current total of 6500+ citations, h-index of 30, and i10-index of 51 (1100+ citations in 2022).
Research Keywords & Expertise
Architectural Design
Building Performance
Building Science
Smart Cities
Intelligent buildings
Short Biography
Dr. Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini is an Associate Professor in Architecture and Urban Microclimate and the Director of Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies in the School of Future Environments at AUT. He is an architectural designer and an urban thinker with over 16 years of academic and professional experience in New Zealand, Canada, and Malaysia. His research primarily focuses on the future of buildings and urban areas through the lens of sustainable and healthy design and smartification. He is interested in the impacts of architectural design on end-users and the influence of buildings on the urban microclimate. He has extensively published in many top-ranked journals in his field, with a current total of 6500+ citations, h-index of 30, and i10-index of 51 (1100+ citations in 2022).