Ioannis Michaloudis

Biography

Dr. Ioannis Michaloudis is a visual artist, academic, and researcher internationally acknowledged as one of the leaders in Art and Science. He is the first creator and investigator on the application of NASA’s nanomaterial silica aerogel in Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. Dr. Michaloudis was born in Greece, is married, and a father of two daughters. His career started in Paris as a researcher at Sorbonne University where he had presented his thesis in 1998 on the elastic relationships between Visual Arts & Design. In Paris, he taught undergraduate Product Design students in the “Arts Décos” School for eight years. In 2001, after receiving the Fulbright Award for Greek Artists, he moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. There he completed his Post-Doctoral research on Art & Science as a Research Fellow, whilst teaching postgraduate students. Between 2012 and 2014 he was teaching students at all levels in Curtin University, School of Design and Art, Western Australia. He was the Head of Interior Design Department at Kingdom University for one year. He is currently coordinating the post-graduate program in Visual Arts at Charles Darwin University. He is the author of twelve papers and one book chapter. He has twelve solo international exhibitions and had been invited in more than twenty international Art & Science exhibitions and conferences.

Research Interest

2012 – current Research collaboration with Assoc. Prof. Daniel Cziczo, MIT’s Earth Science Department, research project: Climatic Sculptureality