Melissa Sterry

Melissa Sterry is a design scientist and futurist to the built environment, utilities, manufacturing, design, publishing, media and communications industries. She is a director and Head of Technology at Earth 2 Hub™, which aims to re-establish a harmonious relationship between humanity and nature using art, science and digital creativity, engaging media including Apps, CGI, Augmented Reality and Gaming.

A PhD Researcher at the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research group (AVATAR) at the University of Greenwich's School of Architecture, Design and Construction, she is developing The Bionic City™: a sustainable smart city it transfers knowledge from Earth's ecosystems to a blueprint for a metropolis with resilience to extreme meteorological and geological events, enabling reduced structural damage and loss of life from events including flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, eruptions and earthquakes.

She is a Visiting Fellow, Visiting Lecturer and Guest Critic at research institutes including University of Salford's School of the Built Environment, Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the AA School of Architecture. Published in over 50 international titles, Melissa is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Society of Bionic Engineering and of the Editorial Board of sustain' magazine. She is a keynote speaker, panel chair and workshop host at sustainability conferences and seminars worldwide, including EcoBuild, European Future Energy Forum, Forum for the Built Environment, World Congress on Sustainable Technologies, Sustainable Business in Practice and The Future We Want: A New Paradigm for a Sustainable 2050.

A multi-award winning social entrepreneur, she is an inductee of the Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network Hall of Fame and was the recipient of the Mensa Education and Research Foundation International Award for Benefit to Society 2010 for her exceptional commitment to enhancing intelligence which benefits society.