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The Cambridge Sustainable Design Group within the Department of Architecture invites applications for the role of Research Assistant/Associate in Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing for Decarbonisation of the Built Environment. The role holder will be working with Professor Ronita Bardhan and support an exciting and high-impact research project funded …

John Nguyen completed his MPhil in Urban Studies in 2025. His dissertation explored the integration of acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) into architectural design, with the aim of transforming traditional open-plan workplace environments into acoustically optimised, multi-zoned spaces. His research positioned AMMs as pivotal design elements, capable of…

Andres presents a talk and a poster of his PhD research on the quantification of the 3-30-300 in England using geospatial datasets at 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming for the Planet (PROPL 2025).. 

Research on "cooling efficacy of tress" led by Prof. Ronita Bardhan and PhD student Haiwei Li featured in Forbes

Sustainable Design Group ,University of Cambridge hosted researchers from the NUS Urban Analytics Lab led by Filip Biljecki from National University of Singapore for a Joint Seminar Day pn 27th June, 2025 in Cambridge. Both research groups presented joint seminars, and shared exciting research on decarbonisation of built environment, planetary heal…

MasterCard funded PhD student Saitabau Kumary wins the Postgraduate Research Symposium for African Scholars held on 30th June, 2025, Cambridge, UK. 

We are pleased to share that PhD candidate Maoran Sun presented her research titled ‘Heat Stress Dichotomy: Long-Term Adaptation and Acute Shock in London Domestic Environments’ at the 19th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM).The conference took place in London and was hosted by The Bartlett Centre …

Dr Jiayu Pan, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and Bye‑Fellow at Murray Edwards College, has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship 2025. The Leverhulme Fellowship is a highly competitive national award and supports outstanding researchers for three years. 

We are delighted to share the news that our Director, Dr Ronita Bardhan has been promoted to Professor. This well-deserved recognition reflects her outstanding contributions to research, teaching, and academic leadership in the field of sustainable built environments.Warmest congratulations from all members of Sustainable Design Gorup, Professor Ro…

Ronita presents her research on data -led and equity driven built environment design solutions for gendered impacts from climate warming in the Global South at the Asian Development Bank - Rising Heat Rising Actions conference , 2nd June 2025, Bangkok, Thailand

Maoran Sun was nominated for oral presentation at the 44th EARSeL Symposium on Deciphering Exterior: Building Energy Efficiency Prediction with Emerging Urban Big Data. His research was selected to presented at the Young Scientist Awards Session 

Haiwei Li (Flora) wins the Best Presentation prize at the Department of Architecture, PhD Conference 2024-25. Her work centres around design research where she intends to develop low cost shading solutions to meet the cliamte related heat stress in resources constraint communities.  

Maoran Sun has been awarded the highly competitive Turing Enrichment Scheme as a placement student for 2024/25 at the Alan Turing Institute. Maoran's  research interest lies in urban analytics and decaronisation. Maoran’s research takes the approach of applying spatial data science to analyze the building characteristics, occupants’ socioeconomic s…