Professor Thomas Schroepfer obtained his doctoral degree and master’s degree with distinction from Harvard University. He began his academic career at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design where he was appointed Assistant Professor of Architecture in 2004 and Associate Professor of Architecture in 2008. He was named Full Professor after joining the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) in 2011, where he became the Founding Programme Director and Associate Head of Pillar of Architecture and Sustainable Design and currently serves as the Co-Director of the SUTD-JTC I³ Centre and the Director of the University’s award-winning Advanced Architecture Laboratory. He held visiting professorships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Loughborough University (LU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS). Since 2015, he is a member of the Core Research Team of the Singapore-ETH Centre Future Cities Laboratory and served as a member of its Steering Committee from 2015-2020.