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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-10-30 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-30 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007897b.htm person Smith Geoffrey B. AACR2 11 July 1946 Place of Birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Engineer Applied physicist Geoff Smith is an engineer and world leader in green technology, noted for his work on coatings and nanotechnology. His research focuses on the optical physics of nanostructures, thin films, and thermal radiative loss, pigmented materials and coatings interacting with solar and atmospheric radiation, applied physics of solar absorbers, passive cooling to temperatures well below ambient, solar control windows, and roof glazing and skylights. He holds over ten patents in delighting and solar materials. In 1992 Smith was appointed Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Technology Sydney, where he has led the Program in Nanotechnology for Energy Efficiency and been Director of the Centre of Materials Technology. Smith has served on technical committees on skylights and roof glazing for Standards Australia, and for Building Codes of Australia. With C. G. Grandqvist he published Green nanotechnology: solutions for sustainability and energy in the built environment in 2010. 1967 1967 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) University of New England 1970 1970 Education - PhD, Monash University 1971 1971 Award - British Council Fellowship 1971 1972 Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sussex, United Kingdom 1973 1980 Career position - Lecturer, New South Wales Institute of Technology 1979 1979 Career position - Visiting Fellowship, University of Houston, Texas, U.S.A. 1981 1987 Career position - Senior Lecturer, New South Wales Institute of Technology 1984 1984 Career position - Visiting Fellowship, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 1988 1990 Career position - Reader, University of Technology Sydney 1991 1991 Career position - Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney 1992 1992 Career position - Visiting Fellowship, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 1992 2007 Career position - Professor of Applied Physics, University of Technology Sydney 1994 1997 Career position - Head, Department of Applied Physics, University of Technology Sydney 1997 1998 Career position - Consultant, Daylighting Design, Stadium Australia 1998 1998 Career position - Visiting Fellow, Angstrom Laboratory, University of Uppsala, Sweden 2001 Career position - Member, Technical Committee, Building Codes of Australia 2001 2001 Career position - Visiting Fellow, Angstrom Laboratory, University of Uppsala, Sweden 2002 2002 Award - Pioneer in Renewable Energy, World Energy Network, Germany 2003 2003 Award - PhD honoris causa, University of Uppsala, Sweden 2006 Career position - Chair, Technical Committee on skylights, Standards Australia 2006 Career position - Associate Editor, Journal of nanophotonics 2007 Career position - Emeritus Professor in Applied Physics, University of Technology Sydney 2008 2009 Career position - Chairman, International Conference on Nanostructured Thin Films, U.S.A. 2011 2011 Award - Award for Invention (shared with Thorsten Trupke), New South Wales Science and Engineering Awards University of Technology Sydney (1988 - )

Professor of Applied Physics 1992 - 2007; Head, Department of Applied Physics 1994 - 1997

 New South Wales Science and Engineering Awards (2008 - 2014)

Award for Invention (shared) 2011

 'Smith, Geoffrey B.', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Smith, Geoffrey B. Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Green: nanotechnology: solutions for sustainability and energy on the built environment Smith, Geoffrey B. and Grandqvist, Claes-Goran, S. Green: nanotechnology: solutions for sustainability and energy on the built environment Boca Raton CRC Press 2010