| Country | Spain (Basque Country) |
| City | Leioa / Bilbao |
| Tier | Core (Tier I) |
| Primary ecosystem | Thermophysical databases / community infrastructure |
| Relevant units | Thermomat research group · EKHI open database |
| Publicly linked people | Josu M. Igartua · community contributors through IR-EMPOWER and EKHI |
| Signature infrastructure | EKHI — open database + modular high-performance infrared emissometer |
| Workshop role | Organizer of IR-EMPOWER |
Thermomat is important not only as a laboratory actor in infrared emissometry, but also as a builder of community infrastructure. It organized IR-EMPOWER as a workshop devoted specifically to infrared emissivity measurement techniques and protocols, and its environment has developed EKHI, a structured open database for optical and radiative properties (recent Scientific Data / Nature publication). Laboratories that both measure and curate data help transform a fragmented literature into a reusable scientific resource — which makes Thermomat especially relevant as a node of community formation, data stewardship, and methodological convergence.
Emittance · reflectance · transmittance · absorptance · related thermo-optical and radiative quantities.
A working community in radiative-property science needs three things: people who measure, people who reason, and infrastructure that outlives any single project. Thermomat works on all three axes at once — running its own instrumentation, co-organizing the IR-EMPOWER workshop that brings the European community together, and maintaining EKHI as a durable open-data backbone. Few groups in the field combine all three.
Every claim in this profile traces to the external sources listed above. Profile follows the research-map methodology. Last verified: 2026-04 (directory revision 2026-06-11).