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Colloquium: Urban Dynamics and Multi-Scale Interactions: Progress and Challenges

Event Details:

  • Date: 6th Oct 2016, Start: 16:00
  • Location: The Cyprus Institute – Guy Ourisson Building, Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Athalassa Campus

*The colloquium will be in English, the event is open to the public, light refreshments will be served after the talk.

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Abstract:
Cities are continuously expanding in order to accommodate the ever-increasing urbanization, and as such, they will experience an urban version of climate change. So, how can cities withstand increasing climate extremes such as heat stress and air pollution exposure? Can an urban-climate sensitive design provide a much-needed urban resilience to climate change? Strategic decision-making on environmental and energy management requires fundamental understanding of the underlying urban thermofluid dynamics and its interaction with multi-scale atmospheric processes. Emerging models and observations (such as high resolution Numerical Weather Prediction, large-domain Computational Fluid Dynamics, extensive sensor networks) now allow research into scale interactions, however, an integrated approach across methodologies and scales is still mostly lucking. Here we present the progress and challenges in this research field as realized so far, as well as a vision for its way forward.

About the speaker:
m neophytouDr Neophytou is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Cyprus and Head of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) Laboratory Group. She has been a Visiting Professor at ETH-Zurich (2014-15) and the UNESCO Visiting Scholar at MIT and Los Alamos National Laboratory (2009).

She received her BA-Honours, MEng, MA and PhD degrees all from Cambridge University (UK) - Department of Engineering (Fluid Mechanics & Thermodynamics Division) all on full-expense university scholarships. She also worked at Schlumberger-Dowell Research and Production Center (Clamart-Paris, France) for which she has received the European Grant Award “Women in Technology”.

She serves as a reviewer for a number of European funding agencies and international journals as well as a steering committee member of a number of international scientific organizations.

Her recent collaborative work "Towards designing strategies for Urban Heat Island mitigation based on mutli-scale flow considerations" (Neophytou et al., 2013) has been awarded the Best Paper Award in the 34th International Air Infiltration and Ventilative Cooling (AIVC) Conference on Energy conservation technologies for mitigation and adaptation in the built environment.

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This event is part of the CyI Colloquium Series

Additional Info

  • Time: 16:00
  • Speaker: Dr Marina Neophytou, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory,
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Cyprus
  • Venue: The Cyprus Institute – Guy Ourisson Building (GOB), Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Athalassa Campus