Plenary Lecture 1: From “green roofs” to “living roofs”, they are here to stay forever
Gabriel Pérez, University of Lleida, Spain
Dr. Gabriel Pérez is Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Industrial and Building Engineering at the University of Lleida. He belongs to the Innovative Technologies for Sustainability research group (IT4S). His academic qualifications are PhD from Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2010), in the PhD program “Research in energy and environment for Architecture” and, Agronomist Engineer from University of Lleida (1995).
His main areas of research refer to the use of green infrastructure in the urban environment as a tool to provide ecosystem services both at building and urban scales.
Specifically, he has studied the use of green roofs and vertical greening systems to improve the thermal and acoustic insulation of buildings, as well as the reduction of the urban head island (UHI) effect and the urban noise in cities. Other developed research topics are related to sustainable construction and the environmental impact of the building sector. Among others, he has conducted research on the use of recycled and sustainable materials instead of the high-impacting ones, and also on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to evaluate the environmental impact of the designed construction solutions.
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Plenary Lecture 2: Health and Climate Change
Eleni Geladari, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
Dr. Eleni Geladari is a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Patras. In 2010, she moved to the USA where she completed her postdoctoral cardiovascular fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, in Boston Massachusetts under the mentorship of Maria Irene Kontaridis. In 2013 she also became a clinical and translational research fellow at the Laboratory of Professor Christos Mantzoros in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr Geladari completed her Internal Medicine residency at the First Department of Internal Medicine of Evangelismos General Hospital in Athens, Greece. During her residency, she spent six months in the USA as a Clinical Research Fellow at the Hypertension and Vascular Medicine Clinic, in the Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, a program affiliated with the Georgetown University Hospital under the guidance of Professor Vasilios Papademetriou. She is a Master of Science Candidate in Gastrenterology at the South Wales University, in UK since 2019.
In 2019, she became attending physician at the 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, at “Hippokration” Hospital, in Athens, Greece. In parallel, she worked as a Research Fellow at the Outpatient Center for the Liver Diseases under the mentorship of Professor Spyridon Ntourakis. In the beginning of 2020, she became a co-Founder of the Hellenic Society of Environmental and Climate Medicine. On December of 2020th, she started her PhD thesis on mechanisms of sarcopenia and myosteatosis in patients with liver cirrhosis, with Dr. Alexandra Alexopoulou as supervisor Professor.
On February 2022, she was appointed as Hospitalist at 3rd Internal Medicine Department at Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
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