Dr Robert Samuels CEO & Director
Cell +61 422 683 411
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Dr Robert Samuels is the CEO and Founder of the new start-up, which will pursue the research and development of the unique urban heat harvesting and renewable energy generating technology. He has twenty years experience teaching and researching in the field of urban design and environmental sustainability. As tenured research academic at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, he developed undergraduate and postgraduate environmental design teaching programs and, as joint chief investigator has been responsible for $1.3million of funded research programs focusing on environmental psychology (people-place relations) and environmental sustainability (people-place-planet relations). Dr Samuels' mission through his teaching, research and consultancies, has been to encourage a movement towards ecologically and socially sustainable development in the approach to urban design and architecture. His areas of expertise range from: climate-appropriate design of cities and energy efficient buildings, to human health, comfort and performance in the built environment, community-security and defensible design. A decade ago his 1994 edited book: Global Warming and the Built Environment encapsulated a human-environment sustainability paradigm now underpinning deliberations on green buildings and cities. |
Dr Kirsti Samuels Director
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Dr Kirsti Samuels is a lawyer with a science background, and brings legal skills and project management skills to the project. A Doctor in Law from Oxford University, with a degree in Genetics and Chemistry and Law from Sydney University. She has consulted for UNDP, the World Bank, and the Clinton Global Initiative and has developed multi-million support projects for developing countries, funded by the multilateral actors. She has also headed up a two year million dollar social science research project for the International Peace Academy, a New York think-tank. |
