Speakers

Dr Matthias Irger is an experienced architect, urban designer and academic specialising in regenerative design and planning, carbon reduction and climate adaptation. He champions an evidence-based, collaborative, and interdisciplinary approach and is driven by a passion to reconcile the objectives of liveability and a zero-carbon economy, and its practical application in architecture, urban design, and strategic planning.

As the National Head of Sustainability at COX Architecture, Matthias oversees the practice’s sustainable design and planning agenda and sustainability services. He creates national strategies, objectives and actions that reduce and mitigate the embodied and operational carbon emissions across our services – ensuring best-practice design.  

Matthias is a co-founder of the Australian Architects Declare Product Aware platform and actively engaged in bridging science, design practice and climate action through collaboration and research partnerships with the University of NSW, the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre at the University of Wollongong, and the Living Future Institute of Australia.

Matthias graduated in Architecture at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences in Germany, holds a PhD in Sustainable Urbanism from UNSW, for which he was awarded the CSIRO Climate Adaption Research Flagship Award, and is a recipient of the Living Future Institute of Australia’s Hummingbird Award.