Kumar Biswajit Debnath is a Research Associate in Passive Building Design in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape (APL) at Newcastle University, UK. As an architect, he is interested in bio-integrated (and bio-climatic) passive building design for climate change adaptation and mitigation. he has extensive experience in biomimetic design, building physics modelling and simulation, and is particularly interested in passive building design and architectural engineering. He is also highly interested in the decarbonisation of energy systems, especially within the built environments in developing countries.