About the author

Professor Darren Robinson PhD CEng is Chair in Architectural and Urban Sciences at the University of Sheffield, where he teaches Building Physics within the School of Architecture. Prior to Sheffield he has taught building physics at Cambridge University, the Architectural Association, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and at Nottingham University.

His personal research activities lie at the intersection between social physics (people), building physics (buildings) and urban physics (city): people • buildings • city. In this, Darren is particularly known for his work on the stochastic modelling of building occupants’ activities, their dependent behaviours and the impacts of these behaviours on their comfort, the integration of these models in a multi-agent stochastic simulation (MASS) platform and on urban energy microsimulation (CitySim and SUNtool). More recently, Darren has worked on the upscaling of building simulation to investigate national building stock decarbonisation strategies (EnHub).

Darren is a recipient of the CIBSE Napier-Shaw Medal (2007), the FWO King Albert 1st Medal (2020), the JPBS Best Paper Prize (2010/11), the BAE Best Paper Award (2009, 2010) and the Sustainability Science Most Outstanding Article Award (2019). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Architectural Science Review and an Editor of the journal Building and Environment.

In his spare time, he is a keen triathlete, competing at standard [Olympic], middle [half-Ironman] and long [Ironman] distances.