Professor Fariborz Haghighat is a professor at the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Canada. He joined Concordia University in 1986 after conducting his post-doctoral research at the Institute for Research Construction, the National Research Council of Canada. Professor Haghighat’s research aims to achieve sustainability in the built environment. His current research focuses on the fundamentals of heat and mass transport in the built environment and on its applications in the design and analysis of energy-efficient, healthy/immune, and sustainable buildings/communities. Professor Haghighat is the co-founder of the International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings (1992), one of the most prominent international conferences in this field. He is a Fellow of ASHRAE and of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Concordia Research Chair in Energy and Environment; in 2019, he was named Distinguished University Research Professor at Concordia University. In 2020, he was awarded as an honorable member of the Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan. Professor Haghighat is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society, Co-Editor of the International Journal of Energy and Built Environment, and editorial board member for numerous journals.