**Negin Imani**

Dr Negin Imani is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Wellington School of Architecture. Her current research concerns biomimetic buildings for climate change adaptation and has been funded by New Zealand's National Science Challenge Science for technological innovation. As the primary investigator of this research project, she is supervising a team of researchers from different disciplines. She is exploring the possibility of designing fully automated buildings that respond to their environments like living organisms. Her current research uses her recently developed innovative, bio-inspired design tool (the ThBA) that bridges the gap between architecture and biology. She has also worked as a senior architect in architectural and engineering consulting companies in Tehran and has been working as a lecturer, teaching across Architectural Technology and Building Science courses in Otago Polytechnic and Open Polytechnic, New Zealand.
