Rate My Professor Dariusz Alterman

Alterman's postdoctoral career began with a competitive fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences at Tohoku Institute of Technology in Sendai, Japan (2005-2007), predicting concrete tensile strength using artificial neural networks. In 2007, he researched at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, assessing housing energy efficiency, mechanical strength, thermal resistance of panels, and heat flux simulations. At Newcastle, he led the Energy Efficiency Research Group, developing phase change materials applications for temperature control in buildings and greenhouses, funded by the Department of Industry and Investment. His research focuses on minimizing housing energy footprints via optimal building design, thermal mass and performance of structures, dynamic thermal response parameters such as the T-value for the Australian Building Code, climate change impacts on housing, slab-edge insulation, air gaps, ground temperatures, and AI tools for energy rating schemes. He collaborated with CSIRO on thermal performance studies. Awards include an Excellence in Teaching Award from Newcastle International College (2020) and fellowships from JSPS Japan (2005-2007), Foundation for Research Science & Technology New Zealand (2007), University of Newcastle and Thick Brick Australia (2009-2011), and Polish Academy of Sciences (2005). Key publications comprise 'The Impact of the Thermal Comfort Models on the Prediction of Building Energy Consumption' (2018), 'Optimising Building Energy and Comfort Predictions with Intelligent Computational Models' (2024), and 'Contribution of Thermal Resistance and Thermal Mass to the Energy Performance of Residential Buildings' (2015).