Prof. Dr. Mark Nieuwenhuijsen – IS Global, Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen PhD is a Research Professor and a director of the Urban Planning, Environment and Health initiative and the Air pollution and Urban Environment research program at ISGlobal Barcelona, Spain. He is a world leading expert in environmental exposure assessment, epidemiology, and health impact assessment with a strong focus and interest on healthy urban living. He has edited 3 books on Exposure Assessment and on Environmental Epidemiology, 5 books around urban and transport planning and health (incl COVID19), co-authored 35 book chapters, and has co-authored more than 500 papers published in peer reviewed journals. In 2018, he was awarded the ISEE John Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Epidemiology. In 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 he was among the 1% most cited scientists in the world. In 2021 he was ranked as the number 1 scientist in Urban health. In 2020 and 2021 he was the president of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN – Greener Cities for Better Health, Wednesday Nov 16, 15:45 - 17:15 PM

Prof. Dr. Nadja Kabisch - Professor for Digital Landscape Ecology at the Institute for Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology at the Leibniz University Hannover
Nadja Kabisch is a Professor for Digital Landscape Ecology at the Institute for Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology at the Leibniz University Hannover. She was a research group leader at the Geography Department of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her work focuses on dynamic urban systems, provision of urban ecosystem services by nature-based solutions and green infrastructure for health and socio-environmental justice
Test-HEAR ME TALK: HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN – Greener Cities for Better Health, Wednesday Nov 16, 15:45 - 17:15 PM
Prof. Dr. Stephan Pauleit - Professor for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Stephan Pauleit, PhD, is a full professor for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He held positions at Wye College, the University of Manchester and the University of Copenhagen. Urban ecology, green infrastructure planning, adaptation strategies to climate change in the urban environment, urban forestry and trees are his main areas of research. At present, Stephan Pauleit is the director of the “Centre for Urban Ecology and Climate Change Adaptation” at the Technical University of Munich. The Centre has given new insights on integrated strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN – Greener Cities for Better Health, Wednesday Nov 16, 15:45 - 17:15 PM
Professor Jian Kang - Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment, University College London, UK
Jian Kang has been a full professor since 2003. He is President of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), and he also chairs the European Acoustics Association Technical Committee for Noise, and the EU COST Action on Soundscape of European Cities and Landscapes. He has worked in environmental/architectural acoustics for 30+ years, with 80+ research projects, 800+ publications, 90+ engineering/consultancy projects, and 20+ patents. He is recipient of the prestigious Advanced ERC Grant Award, currently working internationally on developing Soundscape Indices. He is Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Member of Academia Europaea.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN – Soundscape as a Human-Centered Design Approach, Wednesday Nov 16, 17:30 - 19:00 PM
M.Eng. Alvaro Balderrama - Institute for Design Strategies, TH OWL; Architectural Façades and Products Research Group, TU Delft
Alvaro Balderrama is a Researcher at the Institute for Design Strategies (IDS) of TH OWL in Detmold, and a PhD Candidate at the Architectural Façades and Products (AF&P) Research Group at TU Delft. His research and teaching activities are related to sustainability in the built environment, especially with regard to façade acoustics and urban soundscape. He holds a Diploma in Architecture, a Master’s of Engineering in Computational Design, and a membership to the United States Green Building Council as a LEED Green Associate.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN – Soundscape as a Human-Centered Design Approach, Wednesday Nov 16, 17:30 - 19:00 PM
Ulrich Burmeister - Heinrich Böll Stiftung NRW
Ulrich Burmeister is a social scientist and was until June 2019 group leader in the department of urban development and monument preservation of the Ministry of Urban Development NRW. Ulrich Burmeister is a member of the state board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation NRW. He works in various initiatives in the field of building culture and is a member of the advisory board for urban design of the city of Bielefeld.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: DATA DRIVEN DESIGN – Beteiligungsverfahren im digitalen Raum, Thursday Nov 17, 14:00 - 15:30 PM
Sebastian Schlecht - Architekt (AKNW) und Urbanist
Sebastian Schlecht ist Architekt (AKNW) und Urbanist. Er leitet das Themengebiet für grüne Städte und Regionen bei Baukultur NRW und ist Gründer der Initiative lala.ruhr, mit der er 2022 die ersten Biennale der urbanen Landschaft veranstaltet hat. Bis 2022 war er bei der Stadt Essen für das strategische Management im Geschäftsbereich Umwelt, Verkehr und Sport und der Grünen Hauptstadt Europas 2017 verantwortlich und hat die Stadt unter anderem international in der Urban Transitions Alliance repräsentiert. Er verfügt über internationale Expertise in Fragen der grünen Stadtentwicklung und deren Interaktion mit Mobilität und Klimaschutz. Außerdem ist Sebastian Schlecht Mitglied und ehemaliger Vorstand von JAS – Jugend Architektur Stadt e.V. und lehrt an verschiedenen Hochschulen.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: DATA DRIVEN DESIGN – Beteiligungsverfahren im digitalen Raum, Thursday Nov 17, 14:00 - 15:30 PM
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hanaa Dahy - Stuttgart University / Aalborg University
Hanaa Dahy, born in Cairo, is a registered German architect who completed her PhD at the University of Stuttgart between 2010-2014. She studied architecture and engineering 'Architectural Engineering‘ in Cairo with excellence and Honours (Hons.) in 2003 and obtained her Master's degree in 2006. As part of her professorship, Dahy founded and led the (BioMat) department 'Biomaterials and Material Cycles in Architecture' in Faculty 1 of the University of Stuttgart in mid-2016. She then founded and managed her (BioMat@Copenhagen) research centre at Aalborg University in 2022 in the framework of her current professorship there, as well as her newly initiated technology transfer company-sector named BioMat TGU@TTI GmbH in Stuttgart, also initiated in 2022. She has established her first office in Cairo since 2003. She holds European and international patents, won the Materialica Prize Award for Design+ Technology 2015 in Munich and the MaterialPreis Awards of the Design Center Baden Württemberg in 2016,2018, 2021 and 2022 as well as an Excellence in Teaching (Senior Fellowship Award) 2016/2017, the Excellence Award for Women of outstanding achievements in the Architecture and Construction sector in 2020 as well as received a number of research industrial grants and is a member of several European and international scientific professional associations.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: REGENERATIVE DESIGN – Circularity in Architecture and Building Business, Thursday Nov 17, 17:30 - 19:00 PM

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Winfried Heusler - Hon. Prof. Façade Design and Technology / Univ. of Applied Sciences OWL and Head of Global Building Excellence / Schüco International KG
Winfried Heusler is well known within the professional and academic architectural and construction society worldwide for his numerous lectures and publications on the subjects past, presence and future of façades as well as sustainability. From 1981 he was a development engineer and head of R&D as well as head of aluminum façades business at the façade construction company Gartner in Germany. Since 1998 he has worked for Schüco, until 2013 as Director of Engineering and since 2014 as Head of Global Building Excellence.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: REGENERATIVE DESIGN – Circularity in Architecture and Building Business, Thursday Nov 17, 17:30 - 19:00 PM
Prof. Dr. Ana Ivanovska Deskova - University Ss. Cyril and Methodius - Faculty of Architecture (Skopje, North Macedonia)
Prof. Dr. Ana Ivanovska Deskova is Associate Professor at the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage, History of Arhitecture and Art at the Faculty of Architecture, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje (North Macedonia). She holds a Master of Science and a PhD degree from the same institution. She teaches History of Modern Architecture and courses related to protection and rehabilitation of Cultural Heritage. Her main research interest is the modern architecture in Skopje, the early modernization in the interwar period, but especially the mass modernization after the WW2 and the reconstruction of Skopje after the disastrous earthquake in 1963. In the past 10 years she has been doing research on various sub-topics, preparing publications and presenting this valuable architectural legacy on many thematically curated architectural exhibitions. She has been one of the authors of the National Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture and was member of the curatorial advisory board of the New York’s MoMA exhibition – „Towards a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980“.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: REGENERATIVE DESIGN – Shaping the Existing: (In)Formal Education, Friday Nov 18, 11:00 - 13:00 AM

Prof. ir. Michel Melenhorst - TH OWL (Detmold, Germany)
Prof. ir. Michel Melenhorst studied architecture at Delft Technical University, worked as an architect for the offices of Wiel Arets (1991-1995) and RemKoolhaas OMA (1995-1999) before starting his own office M, later FM in 1999. 2005 he became a partner in DAAD Architects until he switched in 2012 to Detmold (Germany) to hold the chair of Contextual Design, building transformation, reuse, and cultural heritage at the TH OWL. Michel Melenhorst has extensive experience in teaching, lecturing, research and publishing. At TH OWL he is coordinating the Master in Architecture. Since 2016 he leads the EU funded project and joint Master ´RMB reuse of Modernist Buildings´. Melenhorst is a member of Docomomo International and is active in Docomomo Germany Workgroup education.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: REGENERATIVE DESIGN – Shaping the Existing: (In)Formal Education, Friday Nov 18, 11:00 - 13:00 AM
Prof. Dr. Ana Nikezic - University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture (Belgrade, Serbia)
Prof. Dr. Ana Nikezic is Vice-Dean for Science and Education and Head of Research Center at University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture (UB-FA), and Chair of Triennial international thematic conference and exhibition (Architectural Peripheries) in Belgrade (Serbia). She is a Scientific Coordinator of ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership project HERSUS lead by UB-FA, and Member of the Management Board of INTERREG project DANUrB+. She is Associate Professor at Department of Architecture at UB-FA. She holds a PhD in Architecture (2006) with more than 20 years of teaching experience in the area of Architectural and Urban design and over 15 years of experience in research projects.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: REGENERATIVE DESIGN – Shaping the Existing: (In)Formal Education, Friday Nov 18, 11:00 - 13:00 AM
Prof. Dr. Maite Palomares - Universitat Politècnica de València
Prof. Dr. Maite Palomares is a PhD architect at Universitat Politècnica de València. She is head in Architectural History at Architectural Degree and also in Modern Heritage at Master’s Degree. She has extensive experience in teaching, lecturing, research and publishing. She is a member of Iberian Docomomo and also of International Docomomo, contributing in its publications. She is coordinating a Keeping it Modern Grant in Cheste Workers University Paraninfo-Auditorium. At the Higher Technical School of Architecture, she is the Assistant Director for Culture.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: REGENERATIVE DESIGN – Shaping the Existing: (In)Formal Education, Friday Nov 18, 11:00 - 13:00 AM
Prof. Fernando Usó - Universitat Politècnica de València
Prof. Fernando Usó is an architect with Master's Degree in Architectural Heritage Conservation, lecturing History of Architecture at Universitat Politècnica de València. He has developed Rehabilitation Projects specialised in Heritage interventions for historical buildings. He has participated in several research projects focusing on the documentation and conservation of Modern Architecture and he has contributed in DOCOMOMO Ibérico and DOCOMOMO International exhibitions and publications.
Test-HEAR ME TALK: REGENERATIVE DESIGN – Shaping the Existing: (In)Formal Education, Friday Nov 18, 11:00 - 13:00 AM
Alexander Süssemilch - Project Manager @ EDAG and trive.me
Alexander Süssemilch arbeitet als Projektleiter der Firma EDAG an der Erstellung von Smart City und Smart Mobility Services. Gemeinsam mit den EDAG-Software-Teams unterstützt er dabei Städte und Fahrzeughersteller beim Aufbau von digitalen Services. Das gelingt durch Development- und Innovationsmanagement-Dienstleistungen sowie die Entwicklung von Open-Source-Lösungen von der ersten Produkt-Idee bis zum Betrieb der Software. Über diese Themen redet er ebenfalls mit unterschiedlichen Gästen in seinem YouTube-Podcasts ``Kaffee mit Süssemilch``.
HEAR ME TALK: DATA-DRIVEN DESIGN – Stadtdaten \\ City Data, Thursday Nov 17, 15:45 - 17:25 PM
Dr. Andrea Tundis - Research Team Leader - Digital Twins for Infrastructures, German Aerospace Center e.V. (DLR)
Andrea Tundis is a Researcher and Team leader at the department of Digital Twins for Infrastructures (DZI) - Institute for the Protection of Terrestrial Infrastructures (PI) - at German Aerospace Center (DLR). His area of expertise is infrastructure protection, resilience, modeling and simulation and computerized crime. In 2014 he got a Ph.D. degree in Systems and Computer Science from the DIMES department at University of Calabria (UNICAL) in Italy with the subject “Model-based and Simulation-driven Methods for the Reliability and Safety Analysis of Systems”. In 2016 he became member of the Telecooperation Lab (TK) at Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt in Germany, leading the research activities of some EU Horizon 2020 European research projects on organized cyber-crime. Beside that, further research activities have been conducted by dealing with resilience in critical infrastructure and smart grids. Since 2022 he is leading a research group and coordinating its research activities, within the DZI department at the PI institute at DLR, related to a project on digital twins for critical infrastructures and crisis management for smart cities.
HEAR ME TALK: DATA-DRIVEN DESIGN – Stadtdaten \\ City Data, Thursday Nov 17, 15:45 - 17:25 PM

MBA/MSc Carlos Marchi - Institute of Architecture and Media (IAM), Graz University of Technology (Austria)
Carlos Marchi studied architecture and urbanism (Mackenzie University, Brazil & TU Eindhoven, Netherlands), business and management with focus in economics (ACCSB, EFMD/EQUIS, AMBA international triple accreditation) and urban strategies with advanced architectures (University of Applied Arts of Vienna, Austria). He was part of the global research ``Uneven Growth`` organized by the MoMa-New York (USA) & Mak-Vienna (Austria) and has participated since 2018 in the “Digital Gnomonics” research group, structured by the CAAD ETH-Zurich (Switzerland) & ATTP-TU Wien (Austria). Carlos has more than 15 years of international experience and had the chance to work in the Netherlands (PosadMaxwan), China (Mad Architects), Austria (Vienna University of Technology) and South America, where he leads his own venture (Allower.org) working with data-driven design and urban data science. Currently he also teaches and researches at the Institute of Architecture and Media (TU Graz, Austria) exploring the intersections between architecture, urban design, city planning, digital media and information technologies.
HEAR ME TALK: DATA-DRIVEN DESIGN – Stadtdaten \\ City Data, Thursday Nov 17, 15:45 - 17:25 PM

Dr. Hanna Hinrichs
Hanna Hinrichs beschäftigt sich in ihrem ganzen Berufsleben mit der Frage, wie wir unsere Städte gemeinsam gestalten können. Beteiligungsformate, ob analog oder digital, sind dabei ein wichtiger Baustein. Aus ihrer Erfahrung beim Architekturschaufenster Karlsruhe, der Landesinitiative StadtBauKultur NRW und dem Stadtlabor Soest wirft sie einen Blick auf die Chancen digitaler Beteiligungstools.
HEAR ME TALK: DATA DRIVEN DESIGN – Beteiligungsverfahren im digitalen Raum, Thursday Nov 17, 14:00 - 15:30 PM
Radostina Radulova-Stahmer Dipl.-Ing. Architect (Postdoc) - Institut für Städtebau, TU Graz
Studium der Architektur am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) und an der ETSA Madrid. Diplom im WS 2009/2010 und Doktorat SS 2021 mit Auszeichnung am KIT. Mitarbeit in den Büros Atelier Jean Nouvel Paris, KoopX Shanghai, sowie freie Mitarbeit bei VONM Stuttgart und Motorlab Mannheim. 2013 — 2017 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit am Institut für Entwerfen und Städtebau und 2015 – 2017 Forschungsreferentin an der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Seit 2017 Universitätsassistentin am Institut für Städtebau. Seit 2010 Leitung Büro STUDIOD3R mit Deniza Horländer. Ausgewählte internationale Auszeichnungen: 1.Preis Europan 14 Graz, 1.Preis Young Architecture Programme MAXXI mit PS1 MoMA New York, Rom, Würdigung Internationaler Städtebauwettbewerb Seeterrassen Aspern Wien.
HEAR ME TALK: DATA-DRIVEN DESIGN – Stadtdaten \\ City Data, Thursday Nov 17, 15:45 - 17:25 PM