Rohinton Emmanuel

As an architect and professor of sustainable design, Rohinton specialises in urban design and climate, thermal comfort, environmental engineering and nature-based solutions. A range of invaluable and interconnected disciplines apt for our climate-conscious age.

Rohinton is credited with pioneering the inquiry of urban overheating in tropical cities and has taught and consulted extensively on climate, energy and environment.

His PhD projects include nature-based solutions to mitigate urban climate risk, and machine learning approaches to urban climate risk analysis. And he’s currently researching the development of the next generation of healthy, highly efficient, and cost-saving green buildings.

Achievements include

• Leads the Sustainable Urban Environment Research Group (SUE-RG)
• Elected member and secretary on the board of the International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC)
• Member of a World Meteorological Organization Expert Team on Urban and Building Climatology and the Working Group on ‘Climate Change and the Built Environment’ (W108) of the International Council for Buildings (CIB)
• PhD, RIBA, FHEA

In my own words… 

Rebooting data science is, for me, about using the power of data to help visualise the consequences of human actions and to make better decisions.

I would like our network to show the ability to capture what works in the real world from bottom-up perspectives and a mindset of people-over-profit.

If emerging technology is to be ethical and sustainable, we need a concerted focus on the common good. To view data as a 'commons' — ie that which belongs to all of us.