Aris Vartholomaios is an Environmental Design Consultant at CONSORTIS. He is an experienced researcher in the field of climate resilient urban design, energy efficiency and environmental comfort and has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the School of Architecture and School of Spatial Planning of AUTh, Thessaloniki and at IAAC, Barcelona. He has been awarded with the ‘Marie-Curie Seal of Excellence’, the IKY-Siemens PhD fellowship, the ‘Designing Creative Synergies 2014’ student award and Distinction from the Technical Chamber of Greece.