Asst Prof. Andre Santos Nouri

Biography

Andre Santos Nouri is an architect and urbanist who specialises in interdisciplinary climate resilient planning and design, environmental management and modelling, urban climates, human biometeorology, sustainable development practices, and bottom-up climate change adaptation. He has undertaken research in numerous countries, including through on-going international collaborations, and acquired/coordinated international project funding, including from the European-Union’s-Horizon 2020 / Marie-Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement. Having taught in New Zealand, Romania, Portugal, his last position was as an Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Türkiye. Currently, he serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal; in association to this Department, he is a member of the MARE—Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre; he also serves as a Visiting Scientist at the Chair of Environmental Meteorology within the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources at Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany.

Research

Development of multiple spatio-temporal scale human-centred risk assessment and monitoring through the application of multiple biometeorological models in association with data retrieved from numerous sources, including satellite imaging, meteorological station measurements and in-situ climatic apparatus. These are united with the pressing need to accompany the developing climate change adaptation agenda through interdisciplinary climate resilient planning and design through a ‘human-centred approach’. Continuously anchored to urban sustainable development goals, research efforts are structured around three pillars: (1) improved risk identification and environmental monitoring that is broken into particularities of individual variables (e.g., radiation fluxes, relative humidity, wind patterns, and air/surface temperatures) which are then tailored to understand consequences upon both the urban and human energy models; (2) long-term sustainable decision making and design supported by energy-balance-model based indices within divergent measure typologies that moreover embrace the peripatetic human behavioural dynamics that carry paramount effects upon cyclical patterns of human activity and wellbeing; and, (3) communication efforts of not just the risk patterns themselves to the public, but their integration within sustainable design rationales themselves.

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals (2021-)

• Nouri AS, Afacan Y, Caliskan O, Lin TP, Matzarakis A, 2021: Approaching environmental human thermophysiological thresholds for the case of Ankara, Turkey. Theor Appl Climatol, 143(1-2), 533-555.
• Rodríguez-Algeciras J, Tablada A, Nouri AS, Matzarakis A, 2021: Assessing the influence of street configurations on human thermal conditions in open balconies in the Mediterranean climate. Urban Climate, 40, 100975.
• Nouri AS, Çalışkan O, Charalampopoulos I, Cheval S, Matzarakis A, 2022: Defining local extreme heat thresholds and Indoor Cooling Degree Necessity for vulnerable residential dwellings during the 2020 summer in Ankara – Part I: Air temperature. Solar Energy, 242, 435-453. 
• Nouri AS, Charalampopoulos I, Matzarakis A, 2022: The application of the physiologically equivalent temperature to determine impacts of locally defined extreme heat events within vulnerable dwellings during the 2020 summer in Ankara. Sustainable Cities and Society, 81.
• Reis C, Lopes A, Nouri AS, 2022: Urban heat island data by local weather types in Lisbon metropolitan area based on Copernicus climate variables dataset for European cities. Data in Brief, 42, 108292
• Reis C, Lopes A, Nouri AS, 2022: Assessing urban heat island effects through local weather types in Lisbon's Metropolitan Area using big data from the Copernicus service. Urban Climate, 43, 101168.
• Matzarakis A, Nouri AS, 2022: Perception of heat stress in cities and measures for health protection. PLOS Climate, 1(11).
• Nouri AS, Rodriguez-Algecíras, J, Matzarakis A, 2023: Establishing initial urban bioclimatic planning recommendations for Ankara to address existing and future urban thermophysiological risk factors. Urban Climate, 49, 101456. 
• Reis C, Nouri AS, Lopes A, 2023: Human thermo-physiological comfort assessment in Lisbon by local climate zones on very hot summer days. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11.
• Nouri AS, Charalampopoulos I, Afacan Y, Matzarakis A, 2023: Detection and quantification of seasonal human heat and cold stress frequencies in representative existing and future urban canyons: the case of Ankara. Theor Appl Climatol, 153(1-2), 593-620. 
• Ahan M, Nouri AS, Matzarakis A, 2023: Investigating the relationship of outdoor heat stress upon indoor thermal comfort and qualitative sleep evaluation: The case of Ankara. Atmosphere, 14, 1407
• Gündoğdu B., Nouri AS, Afacan Y, Matzarakis A, 2023. Investigating the impacts of shaded outdoor spaces on thermal adaptation and cognitive performance of university students in classroom environments. Int J Biometeorol. 67, 1941–1955.

Book chapters (2021-)

• Nouri AS, Matzarakis A, 2021: Human Biometeorological Models – Existing and Future Reflections for Lisbon. Palme, M, Salvati A (Eds.) Springer Book Chapter in Urban Microclimatic Simulation for Comfort and Energy Studies, Springer: pp. 443-465.
• Nouri AS, Rodriguez-Algecíras J, Matzarakis A, 2023: Dynamic annual solstice patterns and urban morphology: Bioclimatic lessons for in-situ adaptation measures within the warming city of Ankara, Türkiye. A. Cheshmehzangi, B. He, A. Sharifi and A. Matzarakis (Eds.) Springer Book Chapter in Climate Change and Cooling Cities., Springer: pp. 189-214.