Speaker

Stelios Zerefos is an architect (B.A.(hons), M.Arch.II, Ph.D.) and professor of the School of Applied Arts and Sustainable Design of the Hellenic Open University since 2009. He is the Director of the Master’s Programme “Lighting Design”, Director of the M.Sc. “Protection of cultural heritage and monuments of nature from the effects of climate change”, the M.Sc. “Documentation and Modeling of Monuments and Archaeological Sites” and Director of the Lighting Design Laboratory. Apart from the Hellenic Open University he was invited to teach in graduate and post-graduate courses in Greece and abroad. He is a member of national and international scientific organizations, an IALD educator member, as well as editor and reviewer in international scientific journals. He has scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and is also the author of five books in architecture, lighting design and building simulation. He was a national committee member in two EU COST actions themed after light pollution and interactive building envelopes respectively. He is the scientific coordinator of several research and educational projects in the Hellenic Open University and has also coordinated three finished research projects and participated in another nine as a research member. He has actively participated in the creation of six postgraduate programmes, one undergraduate programme and two short programmes at HOU either as chair or as a member of the Academic Oversight Committee, while he has administrative experience in the HOU’s steering committee during the period, Dean of the School of Applied Arts and Sustainable Design and currently elected member of the HOU’s Board of Directors.