Professor Sonja Oliveira has over 20 years internationally leading design innovation and interdisciplinary research experience in the sustainability, energy, technology, and design sectors. She combines design, architecture and behavioural science as well as spatial and socio-technological analysis to understand how complex phenomena interrelate and how society may develop responsive intelligent mechanisms in extreme crisis scenarios. She has led diverse multidisciplinary design and research projects ranging in value from £200k-£29mil in the UK and internationally. She has an established international reputation in socio-spatial intelligent communication and governance, nature inspired collective responsiveness and climate action thought leadership. She founded the Radical Architecture Practice for Sustainability Network (https://www.rapsresearch.com) in partnership with leading design practitioners and researchers in Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, and France. She is a Thought Leadership Specialist Advisor to the UK Design Council and a board member of the World Green Building Council (Serbia), as well as scientific and industry advisory member of numerous scientific committees including the newly launched New European Bauhaus Collective. Her curiosity for exploring humans’ and other species’ interactions with social and spatial contexts emerged in her early career as a training architect at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, where Sonja graduated in 2000. Having worked as a design manager and sustainability lead on diverse design projects, she undertook an EPSRC funded PhD at the University of Reading examining peer-review processes and evaluative decision-making in architectural awards. Sonja’s approach is founded on working across, between and within disciplines to understand the root of something. She has managed diverse entities of complex multidisciplinary projects and innovation programmes and more recently Leverhulme funded doctoral centre on Nature Inspired Acoustics and Design as Co-Director.