Michael Hensel

Prof. Dr. Michael U. Hensel [Dipl. Ing. Grad Dipl Des AA PhD Reading] is an architect, researcher, educator and writer. He is tenured professor for Architecture at AHO where he directs the Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics and co-founded the Advanced Computational Design Laboratory. From 1993 to 2009 he taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where he co-initiated and co-directed the Emergent Technologies and Design Program. He held numerous visiting professorships and innovation fellowships in Europe, the Middle East, America and Australia.

Michael U. Hensel is founding and acting chairman of the OCEAN Design Research Association, a not-for-profit association registered in 2008 in Norway that conducts inter- and transdisciplinary research in design across creative disciplines. He was founding chairman and from 2011 to 2015 acting chairman of the Sustainable Environment Association [SEA], an international and interdisciplinary expertise network that was registered as a not-for-profit association in Norway and in the European Commission Beneficiary Register. From 2007 to 2012 he was board member of BIONIS - The Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability.

He has authored and co-authored 4 books and 20 book chapters, edited and co-edited 6 books and 8 journals. He is editorial board member of JBE - Journal for Biomimetic Engineering (Elsevier Scientific Press), FORMakademisk, IJDST - International Journal of Design Sciences and Technology, and AJAR Arena Journal of Architectural Research and advisory board member of TAD - Technology, Architecture + Design.