Built Environment Research Forums 2022

Professor, UNSW School of Built Environment;
Professor Susan Thompson's academic career, researching and teaching in the built environments, is grounded in professional practice. She joined UNSW in 1991 after holding urban planning positions in both state and local government. Susan is a passionate advocate for healthy built environments. She is Head of the City Wellbeing Program in the City Futures Research Centre. City Wellbeing focuses on planning, designing and building environments that support people’s health and well-being.

A/Prof, UNSW School of Built Environment;
Dr. Jinjin Yan finished his master's degree (2013-2016) and bachelor's degree (2009-2013) in the Faculty of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. From October 2016, he started his Ph.D. in TU Delft (Netherlands). In February 2018, he transferred to GRID in the Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW (Australia). Under the supervision of Prof. Sisi Zlatanova and Dr. Abdoulaye Diakite, he received the Ph.D. degree in November 2020.

University of Sydney, School of Architecture, Design and Planning;
Daniel Ryan is an historian of architectural science and architecture in the tropics, focusing on Australasia and the Pacific. He is particularly interested in the changing environmental role of the house and its technologies during the twentieth century. His current doctoral research explores the translation of climatic ideas from tropical medicine to architecture and their entanglement with colonial politics. He also writes about Eileen Gray’s approach to climate and occasionally lectures about the conservation of her architecture.

News & Content Coordinator, Division of External Engagement, UNSW;
Knight is telling the stories of UNSW Built Environment, Law, Art & Design and Arts & Social Sciences.

Cities Editor and Deputy Energy + Environment Editor, The Conversation;
John joined The Conversation in 2013 and has been Politics & Society Editor, Cities Editor and Higher Education Editor. He now covers CIties and Sustainability. John decided in the mid-1980s that a life tracking elephants (for an honours degree in ecology) was less interesting than being a journalist in apartheid-era South Africa. When his residence was revoked he returned to Australia. He joined The Conversation after two decades with The Age as a chief leader writer, columnist and editor, following nine years with regional newspapers.

Managing Editor & Publisher, The Fifth Estate & The Green List;

Director of Research Analysis, Data, and Reporting Division of Research and Enterprise, UNSW;

Associate Lecturer, Landscape Architecture / Research Associate, City Futures Research Centre;

HDR. Winner of First prize, 3MT;
Construction work adversely affects the mental health of young people worldwide. Research has however been limited to the Global North context. His research seeks to explore the impacts of construction work on the mental well-being of young construction workers in the Global South, focusing specifically on the case of Ghana.

HDR, UNSW School of Built Environment;
Winner of the ISPRS Kennert Torlegård Travel Award, given by the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing to support young scientists, at the ISPRS Congress, France

HDR, UNSW School of Built Environment;
Making Eyes from the Sky (Drones/UAVs) smart and automated through training with advanced machine learning algorithms to assist humanitarian disaster relief. Seasonal flood waters cover infrastructure, making it difficult to locate routes for evacuation services. This novel research will also help in overcoming these hurdles by mapping routes, carrying out damage assessment and evacuating disaster victims in disastrous like situations including (Floods, Earthquake, and bushfires).

(PhD, Dipl-Ing. FH) Director ARC Centre for Next-Gen Architectural Manufacturing Discipline Director, Computational Design Deputy Director ADA UNSW AI Institute;
Associate Professor M. Hank Haeusler Dipl.-Ing. (Fh) / PhD (SIAL/RMIT) is the Discipline Director of the Bachelor of Computational Design (CoDe) at the Australian School of Architecture + Design (Built Environment) at the University of NSW, Sydney. Since December 2017 Haeusler is also a Professor at the Visual Art Innovation Institute at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing due to being internationally recognised as a researcher, educator, entrepreneur, and designer in media architecture, digital technology, computational design, interaction design, and ubiquitous computing.

UNSW , Senior Research Development Manager (National Major Grants) Research Strategy Office, Division of Research and Enterprise;

National Policy Manager, Sustainability & Regulatory Affairs, Property Council of Australia (PCA);
A senior sustainability leader passionate about diversity, ethics in leadership, championing social justice issues and advocating ambitious public policy to support the transition to a zero emissions economy. My career includes a diverse range of roles from technical engineering consulting and international development work in India, to government and industry roles focused on energy and climate change. I now lead the national policy and advocacy agenda on sustainability and regulatory affairs for the property industry at the Property Council of Australia.

Research Associate, UNSW City Futures Research Centre;
Hao Wu is a Research Associate in the City Futures Research Centre, the University of New South Wales. Prior to joining the UNSW team, he completed his PhD degree in 2021 with the University of Sydney on the subject of Ensemble Forecasting. He studied transportation engineering and graduated with a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2017. Hao's research focuses on accessibility, and the related transport, land-use and mode choice issues; his recent research interest is in the application of machine learning and ensemble forecasting in transport and planning problems. He authored Access Across Australia and Access Across New Zealand reports, and is a coauthor of the Transport Access Manual.

Executive Director at Australian Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy, CEO NSW Decarbonisation Innovation Hub;
Distinguished Professor (Scientia) Deo Prasad AO FTSE is now an international authority and recognised as a national leader in the field of sustainable buildings and cities and among the leading advocates for sustainability in Australia, with his contributions having been widely acknowledged at all levels of government and professions in Australia. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1991, he has been a highly influential, driving force for sustainable design in both academia and professional practise and in 2006 he received the Royal Australian Institute of Architect’s National Education Award for contribution to ‘sustainability education, research and design’.

Resilience, climate change, natural capital and sustainable finance Advisor and Consultant and PhD Candidate UNSW;
Romanovska examines the life-cycle performance of urban green infrastructure to facilitate deeper understanding of the role of green infrastructure, support the optimisation of social, environmental and economic benefits, and minimisation of detriments. I seek to advance a methodology for holistic green infrastructure life-cycle assessments serving the needs of decision-makers.

High Performing Architecture;
Lan Ding is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Built Environment. She received her PhD at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning. Prior to joining the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW, Lan held the position of Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO (2000-2011) and Senior Lecturer at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre at the University of Wollongong (2011-September 2013).

UNSW Research Associate Enabling Environment Program;
Konstantina is a Research Associate at the Enabling Environments Program (EBEP), undertaking research on home modifications and inclusive design. Prior to joining UNSW BE Konstantina worked as a researcher for the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and for the Centre for Renewable Energy Sources, in Greece. Her research interests focus on universal and inclusive design, light and lighting, energy efficiency in the built environment, urban climate mitigation techniques, etc. In the near future, Konstantina aims to explore the lighting parameters that provide safe environments for people with reduced vision.

Construction Sustainability Manager, Mirvac;
A sustainability professional with seventeen years of diverse environmental and sustainability experience across government, industry associations and consulting in Australia and the UK. Martin has experience in driving sustainability across a range of scales, from national policy development; to corporate strategy; to environmental and sustainability framework assessments and implementation; to detailed project management, delivery and reporting.

Head of Sustainable Future, Lendlease;
Bonnitcha uses sustainability methods such as life cycle assessment and sustainable procurement standards to ensure that resources expended have the greatest sustainability outcomes.

Head of Health, Safety and Environment, ADC;
More than 25 years' experience in the management of environment, health and safety across high risk and complex organisations. Bachelor of Building Degree and PhD in construction safety. Related specialist skills and experience include: legal and expert opinion; management of major incidents and investigation; tender, conversion and delivery of complex projects; interrogation of design and planning at tender and downstream design and planning stages; high risk work methodology reviews; and detailed analysis of upstream design and planning with a specialised focus to reduce downstream risks in delivery.

Manager Sustainability, Sydney Metro, Metro West;
Ibbotson has been in the sustainable development for the past 17 years, I have conducted a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study for both government and industrial organisations in Australia and overseas. Results highlight materials, processes and systems that have high environmental impact (hotspots). Alternative solutions are tested for opportunities of a continuous improvement by comparing the results with other constraints.

Deputy editor, Environment and Energy, The Conversation Australia;

Strategist - Net Zero and Climate Change, Sustainable Design USYD;

Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism;

Casual Academic, UNSW BE;

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Research Associate-City Futures;
Rupa Ganguli is an economic geographer, who has used quantitative and qualitative research methods to study the dynamics and drivers of Australian commercial and residential property markets. She has extensive research and consulting work experience in the property development and real estate agency industry, employed within major publicly listed companies.

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