Andreas Matzarakis was born 1960 in Pentalofos, Province of Evros,
Greece. He studied meteorology at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität
(LMU), Munich. He completed his dissertation on the bioclimate of Greece
in 1995 at the Aristoteles University in Thessaloniki. Between 1995 and
2001, he was a 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 a 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
of the International Society of Biometeorology and he was the vice-president of
the International Society of Biometeorology between 2006 and 2009.
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