Dr. Michael Batty

Michael Batty CBE, FBA, FRS, FAcSS is a British urban planner and geographer, and a Professor in The Bartlett at University College London. He has been Director, now Chairman, of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis set up when he was appointed to UCL in 1995. His research and the work of CASA is focused on computer models of city systems. He was awarded the William Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011, the University Consortium GIS Research Award in 2012, and the LaurĂ©at Prix International de GĂ©ographie Vautrin Lud, the so-called ‘Nobel for geography’, in 2013. In 2015, he was awarded a Gold Medal – the Founder’s Medal – of the Royal Geographical Society.

For more information, visit his University College London website.