Daniel Rüdisser is a physicist and chartered engineer running an engineering company that specialises in building science software and research services. He also works as a research project manager for AEE Institute for Sustainable Technologies and has worked as a researcher at Graz University of Technology. He holds a master’s degree in physics and a PhD in technical sciences and has finished both studies with distinctions. He has won a best conference paper award, a scientific paper award, and the Energy Globe Styria award for developing a drone-based urban heat analysis method. He has broad experience and expertise in many fields ranging from solar and thermal radiation and heat transfer simulations, over remote sensing, urban heat and thermal comfort analysis, to environmental measurements, data science, software development, and numerical modelling.