Dr. Lazaros MAVROMATIDIS

Dr. Lazaros Mavromatidis is an architectural engineer with a Ph.D. and an HDR in applied and theoretical thermodynamics. He received his architectural engineering diploma from the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (one of the oldest and most historic Architecture and Polytechnic Schools of Europe) in 2007. He then received his Ph.D. in applied thermodynamics from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Lyon) and the National School of Public Works (École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’État), Lyon, France in 2011. In 2014, he was appointed associate professor at the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Strasbourg (INSA Strasbourg) and affiliated in the ICube laboratory UMR 7357 (Energy and Civil Engineering group). Based on Michel Foucault’s philosophy, in 2017, he created the experimental and multidisciplinary architectural design studio “Climatic Heterotopias”, which is integrated in the 4th-year architectural engineering educational program of INSA Strasbourg. In this studio novel research findings are directly inserted into pedagogy. He received his Pilot Research Accreditation from the Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) of Paris in October 2021. He is currently the Coordinator of International Relations at the School of Architecture, INSA Strasbourg.