Resilience vs Pandemics / Urban Sustainability (PDF)

technologies, and urbanism. Maycon obtained his Ph.D. Diploma with excellence in Architecture, Technology and City from the University of Campinas in 2016. He contributed to the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (TU Braunschweig-Germany) as a postdoc in the field of urban analytics. Later in 2019, he became part of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China's team, leading the Digital Design Lab and acting as a course director and the deputy head of department. He is now a lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University in Australia (2023). He co-edited the book Contemporary Architecture and Automation published in 2018.

Hang Zhao is a researcher in the fields of urban planning, design, and management. She obtained Master of Urban Design at the University of Melbourne in 2021. Her professional skills cover city and regional planning, transportation design, landscape and architectural design, etc. Now, Hangis researching resilient cities and built environment at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

Tian LI is a researcher who studies resilience-oriented urban planning and management. She has a background in urban and rural planning, urban design, and regional analysis and planning. Tian completed her master's degree with distinction, i.e., M.Arch. Sustainable Urban Design at the University of Nottingham, UK. Currently, she is researching at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, and her research mainly focuses on pandemic-resilient urban strategies and urban public spaces.

Tim Heath is a qualified architect, a town planner, and an urban design practitioner having worked in the UK for over 30 years and for the past 15 years in China where he has undertaken consultancy and projects related to architecture, urban design and building, and urban environmental performance assessments. He is the course director of the M.Arch. Sustainable Urban Design and the director of postgraduate programs. He has previously been the director of the Institute of Architecture, the head of the School of the Built Environment, and subsequently the head of the Department of Architecture & Built Environment. He has also been the associate dean for Internationalisation and External Relations in the Faculty of Engineering and the acting vice provost for Research & Knowledge Exchange at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC). He has also acted as an external examiner in many prestigious universities around the world for undergraduate and postgraduate programs as well as being a Ph.D. examiner. He has chaired many academic and professional accreditation and validation panels in the UK, Malaysia, China, and for the UAE's Commission for Academic Accreditation. He is also a member of the Human Factors Research Group.

Ayotunde Dawodu is a sustainable urban researcher and an energy engineer with a zeal for developing and implementing sustainable solutions across the urban fields; waste management, transport, energy (efficient and renewable), spatial planning, ecology sectors; equipped with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc. in Sustainable Energy Engineering, and Ph.D. Energy Technologies and Sustainable Development. He also possesses expertise in Sustainable Building Design/Analysis and strongly advocates integrated community participation in urban decision-making and planning. Ayotunde also specializes in sustainability assessment tool methods for evaluating guiding, ranking, and assessing the sustainability of buildings and communities. He is currently a senior lecturer in the Built Environment at the University of Greenwich, UK. He is also a certified BREEAM assessor, WELL accredited professional (AP), and a member of the WELL Concept "Communities' Advisory group for International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), further attesting to his professional capabilities as a sustainability and health and wellbeing expert in the built environment.