Dr Kayvan Karimi is a Professor of Urban Analytics and Spatial Design within the Space Syntax Laboratory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and Director of the MSc and MRes programmes in Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities. He is an architectural and urban designer with more than 30 years of academic and professional experience. While maintaining one foot in the academic world and the other in the professional practice, Kayvan has tried to craft a unique ability to bridge between these two worlds, enriching his teaching by real life experiences and strengthening his evidence-based consultancy work by engaging in extensive academic research and teaching.