Geoff Smith
Professor
Nanoscale Technology
University of Technology Sydney
Australia
Biography
Geoff Smith is Emeritus Professor in Applied Physics. He is renowned for contributions to science and technology in energy, coatings and nanotechnology and is a world leader in green nanotechnology. Based at UTS since 1973, his solar energy work started in 1974 after a PhD at Monash University and two years at the University of Sussex, UK. Professor Smith has spent periods on renewable energy projects at Chalmers University of Technology, and University of Uppsala Sweden, The University of Houston, Texas and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, California, USA. His group has worked with large and small corporations from Germany, USA, Japan, UK and Australia.
Research Interest
Professor Smith’s team is a world leader in technologies for saving energy, and mitigating global warming and its impacts. His research covers materials for use in solar energy and energy efficiency with emphasis on utilising nanostructures, thin films and special paints to optimally tune material responses to environmental energy flows (solar, thermal radiation from the atmosphere, and air flow) to achieve desired functions, which include human needs for thermal comfort, lighting and a view, and energy.
