Darren Robinson worked for several years as a contract researcher and was latterly Senior Research Associate in Energy Modelling at Cambridge University before moving into industry in 2000. He has been at LESO-PB/EPFL since October 2004, as leader of the Sustainable Urban Development group. Darren has published over 50 scientific papers in the subject of urban modelling and was awarded the CIBSE Napier-Shaw Bronze Medal for one of these. He currently sits on research funding council committees in France, Portugal and Sweden and is a Visiting Professor at the Technical Research Centre of Finlan...