Editorial Board Members

Ahmed Z. Khan is professor and chair of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism at the BATir (Building, Architecture and Town Planning) Department of the Brussels school of Engineering at Université Libre de Bruxelles.

He is the academic coordinator of advanced Masters in urbanism and territorial planning, international Bruface MSc in Architectural engineering, and founder and scientific chair of DS²BE (Doctoral Seminar for Sustainability Research in the Built Environment). He teaches Bioclimatic Design, Sustainable Design Studio, Theory of Architecture and Urbanism, including a seminar on Cities of the Future.

Dr. Khan’s research activities focus on issues of Sustainability, Climate Change and Spatial Quality at different scales of the built environment with particular interest in exploring Sustainable Urban Futures. Besides coordinating large-scale European and regionally funded research projects, he supervises several PhD and postdoc researches that focus on urban ecosystem services optimization, research by design, urban metabolism, energy efficiency and urban form, urban environmental quality, and urban renewal and retrofitting. With 5 books and over 100 scientific publications, Prof. Khan has lectured extensively on issues of sustainable urbanism, and ‘city of the future’ in the framework of ‘global ecological balance’ at several forums in North America, Europe and South Asia.

Ahmed earned a PhD in Architecture, Urbanism and Planning from KU Leuven, and held AKPIA postdoc fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A fellow of several learned societies, he sits on the scientific review panels of several European research funding agencies and reviews for many academic journals. He has practiced for about a decade, and regularly advises city and state governments on sustainable urban development in Africa, Europe and South Asia.