Gideon Spanjar, is the project leader and senior researcher of Building for Well-being and Nature Inclusive Area Development at the Centre of Expertise Urban Technology at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). He is a member of the chair Spatial Transformation at AUAS. Gideon is also professor of Innovation & Urban Green Space at Aeres University of Applied Sciences in Almere where he conducts research in Biodiverse Cities (EU-funded), Nature Inclusive Area Development, Green-Blue Cities and Excellent Green Environments. His research focuses on the redesign of the built environment using neuro-architecture principles, ecosystemic thinking, and biometric technology to get a better understanding of how we can improve human health and well-being in a changing climate. Gideon is co-author of the recently published books Neuroarchitecture & Urban Heat Atlas.

Sába graduated cum laude from TU Delft as an architect and urban planner and gained experience working in Paris and Rotterdam on heritage transformation, cultural development, and spatial development frameworks for mobility hubs, residential areas, university and business campuses. She is enthusiastic about bridging research and practice and finding synergies between the social, spatial and climatic challenges cities are facing.

Hugo Beschoor Plug was trained as an architect at the Technical University Delft and in the office of Ben van Berkel. He has been teaching architecture and urbanism at the Technical University Berlin and the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee. He worked for the Rijksgebouwendienst in Den Haag and Hootsmans architectuurbureau in Amsterdam while teaching at several institutions in the Netherlands. Hugo currently teaches at the University of Siegen and conducts research for the Amsterdam University of Applies Sciences on the new urban wave of hybrid building blocks with micro-apartments: Living the Micro-life. He works and lives in Frankfurt.

Rachel is a research psychologist with a background in cognition, wellbeing, and biometrics. She is working on integrating biometric data to better understand how urban design factors affect us both physiologically and psychologically. In the Building for Wellbeing project, various biosensors will be used to collect biometric data, including eye-tracking, heart rate, and physiological arousal (GSR).

Federica is an architect, urban planner, and artist who researches urban innovations from a socio-technical perspective. Exploring the values of the relationship between human and technology. With a background in architecture (La Sapienza University of Rome) and contemporary art (Leiden University), she joined the MSc MADE master program (joint degree WUR, TUD) at AMS Institute to explore the values of the relationship between human and technology in the city. Focusing on urban mobility, she analyses technological artefacts such as autonomous vehicles from an actor-network perspective. Mapping the human and nonhuman actors, she reveals opportunities to address ethical issues related to the development of CAVs in the urban context.