Prof. Sergio Porta is a Professor of Urban Design, Director of the Urban Design Studies Unit and Course Director of the MScUD program and former Head of Department at the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Chair of the International Seminar of Urban Form Conference 2021 in Glasgow, he is advisor to international organisations, sits on the editorial boards of leading journals in urban science and design and is regularly invited speaker to international conferences. His research is on the masterplanning process, urban form analytics and morphometrics, and radical community-based architectural. He published over fifty papers on international peer-reviewed journals and three monographs. His h-index is 23 on Scopus and 33 on G-Scholar (Feb. 2024). His latest book “Masterplanning for Change: Designing the Resilient City” was published in 2020 by RIBA. In 2023, he was awarded the Mellick Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Michael Breheny Prize by "Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science" for best papers of the year.