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Professor Ronita Bardhan BArch, MCP, MA, PhD (Urban Engineering) is Professor of Sustainable Built Environment and Health in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, where she leads the Cambridge Sustainable Design Group. She is also Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fellow and Director of Studies in Architecture at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and holds visiting and associate positions in Cambridge Public Health, Centre for Science and Policy, Cambridge Zero, and Cambridge Global Challenges. Previously, she served as Assistant Professor and founding faculty member of the Centre for Urban Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Shimizu Visiting Professor at Stanford University, and was nominated to represent IIT Bombay on India's Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Affordable Housing Policy committee in 2015. Bardhan earned her PhD in Urban Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2013, Master's in City Planning from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and BArch. Her research triangulates environmental data, building physics, epidemiology, social sciences, machine learning, and AI to develop context-specific interventions for precision population health in climate-vulnerable settings, including gender-inclusive climate adaptation, decarbonisation algorithms for UK buildings, and studies on social housing in India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Brazil.