As Professor of Advanced Building Design at the School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire, I conduct interdisciplinary research and lead Zero Carbon Lab. In 2021 I took the role of Director of Centre for Future Societies Research at the University. This interdisciplinary Research Centre facilitates investigations into complex ways of making our future world a better place. The Centre membership consists of over 100 Active Members and Associate Members, working on a portfolio of impact-driven research projects and engagement with policy makers. The Centre has strong links with the University’s membership of the Doctoral Training Alliance, and has been awarding fully funded PhD Studentships in Future Societies since 2021. I have worked as an academic, researcher and practitioner on instrumental monitoring, dynamic simulation and environmental design of buildings over a career spanning three decades. My work includes the creation of machine learning models for prediction of building performance, a patent for an expandable and contractible building, research into nature's zero carbon designs and research into zero carbon retrofit of buildings. My book 'Designing Zero Carbon Buildings Using Dynamic Simulation Methods' has been adopted as core text at several UK, US and European universities and has been used as a handbook by major international consultancies, with a second edition published in June 2017 and a third edition in preparation. My work with industry included delivering numerous solutions, including improving thermal comfort in buildings and resolving simulation performance gap occurring in buildings built from hemp-lime bio-composite materials. My work on designing thermal performance of two commercial buildings built from that material in the United Kingdom: Ellipta Compliance Building for GlaxoSmithKline and Hemcrete Museum Store for British Science Museum, led to construction of buildings with negative embodied carbon emissions, and with overall zero carbon performance whilst achieving significant capital savings. Part of my research was based on the work done to evaluate the Birmingham Zero Carbon House, a ground-breaking carbon-neutral building based on a 170-year-old redbrick Victorian house. This research showed how best to convert existing buildings into zero carbon homes of the future. It demonstrated how home owners could eliminate energy bills and fuel poverty, and potentially achieve a significant return on investment. My involvement with ASHRAE UK London and South East Chapter, one of over 200 worldwide ASHRAE Chapters, is as a member of the Board of Governors, where I was 2019-2021 Chapter President. ASHRAE is a professional society of engineers with 57,000 members across 132 nations, dedicated to advancing environmental design of buildings and promoting a sustainable world. I hold an MSc from the University of Belgrade and a PhD from the University of Birmingham, both in Mechanical Engineering. I am a Chartered Engineer, a Member of CIBSE, a Member of ASHRAE, a Fellow of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers, and a Fellow of the International Building Performance Simulation Association. As Guest Editor of Special Issues published by Frontiers in Built Environment and Sustainability I facilitated publications of articles that seek to improve the quality of our environment and of our future, and have taken a role a Member of Editorial Board of Sustainability that enables me to extend this work. My portfolio of research grant funding has exceeded a total of £10 million, including a recently completed Design Exchange Partnership on Accelerating Net-Zero Housing at Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, funded by the UK AHRC.