Michael Budig is Assistant Professor in Architecture and Sustainable Design at SUTD, director of the REAL Lab for Research in Renewable and Regenerative Architecture and director of REACT Studio. His research is driven by computational design and fabrication, and the desire to provide innovative solutions for the decarbonisation, digitalisation and changing demographics in the built environment. He held academic positions at MIT, ETH Zurich / FCL Singapore, University of Applied Arts Vienna and University of Innsbruck, and he practised as an architect and principal of Moll Budig Architecture, a multi-disciplinary office on architecture, urbanism and design strategies in Austria.