Ioannidis Romanos

He is currently the Principal Investigator of the research project PUBLICLAND "Crowdsourcing public perception of landscapes: towards pan-European platforms in support of landscape research and spatial planning". His research has also focused on landscape planning and architectural design of large infrastructure works, with a focus on renewable energy and water infrastructure. He earned his PhD and his Civil Engineering diploma from NTUA (Athens), and his postdoc included a year of research fellowships at Université Sorbonne Paris Cité and Forschungszentrum Jülich. His research and teaching have been supported by scholarships from institutions such as Campus France of the French Government, DAAD of the German Government, the Greek Ministry of Education, the Bodossaki Foundation and the Eugenides Foundation. He has earned international and national awards, including the Seal of Excellence from the European Commission and awards for his scientific publications and theses. He has contributed to various European and National research projects.

Career

Assistant Professor - Postdoctoral Researcher (Rtda), Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering.

Postdoctoral Researcher, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (2025).

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Forschungszentrum Jülich - Institute of Climate and Energy Systems (2024).

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité - Paris Interdisciplinary Energy Research Institute (2024).

Postdoctoral Researcher, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), School of Architecture (2024).

PhD in Spatial Planning and Architectural Design, Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, NTUA (2022).

Diploma in Civil Engineering, NTUA (2015).

Research

Participatory landscape mapping and public perception evaluation using crowdsourcing, mobile technology, and citizen science.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and reverse visibility analysis methodologies for large-scale landscape planning and mitigation of visual impacts of renewable energy.

Landscape and architectural design for integrating civil infrastructure into landscapes.

Selected Publications

Tsani, T., Pelser, T., Ioannidis, R., et al. (2025). Quantifying the trade-offs between renewable energy visibility and system costs. Nature Communications, 16.

Ioannidis, R., Mamassis, N., Efstratiadis, A., & Koutsoyiannis, D. (2022). Reversing visibility analysis: Towards an accelerated a priori assessment of landscape impacts of renewable energy projects. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 161, 112389.

Ioannidis, R., & Koutsoyiannis, D. (2020). A review of land use, visibility and public perception of renewable energy in the context of landscape impact. Applied Energy, 276, 115367.

Ioannidis, R., Koutsoyiannis, D., & Sargentis, G.-F. (2022). Landscape design in infrastructure projects - is it an extravagance? A cost-benefit investigation of practices in dams. Landscape Research.

R., Chesné A, Ioannidis R. (2024). An Investigation of the Perception of Neoclassical, Eclectic, Modernist, and Postmodern Architecture within Different Urban Landscapes: Athens vs. Paris. Land, 13(3):340.

Grants, awards and Honours

"Seal of Excellence" awarded by the European Commission (2024).

Bodossaki Foundation Scholarship Programme for Visiting Research Scientists (2024).

DAAD (German Government) Short-term Research Grant (2024).

Campus France (French Government) High-level Scientific Residence Fellowship (2024).

A’ prize in the architectural concept competition for the EYDAP new building complex and landscape design (2022).

Award for best scientific journal publication, Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Center (2021).

Community Service

He serves as a reviewer for multiple academic journals, including Energy Research & Social Science, Scientific Reports, and LAND, and has acted as a Guest Editor for the LAND journal's special issue on evolving landscape research. He was a Scientific Committee Member for the 6th international conference on Changing Cities CCVI. In terms of academic leadership and supervision, he is the founder of the NTUA team for the participatory evaluation of the urban landscape, with more than 130 participants to date, and has supervised more than 50 Erasmus interns.