Professor Jason Pomeroy

His professional career includes critically acclaimed green cities, buildings and landscapes: from the micro-scale of the first zero carbon house in Asia, to the macro-scale of Indonesia’s ‘Silicon Valley’. He lectures globally and is the author of: 'Idea House: future tropical living today' (2011); 'The Skycourt and Skygarden: greening the urban habitat' (2014); 'Pod Off-Grid: explorations into low energy waterborne communities' (2016), 'Cities of opportunities: connecting culture and innovation' (2020) and 'Hardware, Software, Heartware: digital twinning for more sustainable built environments' (2023). Jason works to raise awareness of the cultural role the built environment plays in society and was both consultant and host of the architecture / urbanism TV series’ 'Smart Cities 2.0', 'City Time Traveller', 'City Redesign' and 'Futuropolis', which aired throughout Asia, Middle East and Europe. 

He holds professorships at the University of Nottingham, and James Cook University; and leads a sustainable urbanism module on the 'Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment' Masters programme at the University of Cambridge. He gained Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees from the Canterbury School of Architecture, a Masters degree from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the University of Westminster. He is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.