Prof Michael Batty, CBE

Career: asst lectr Dept of Town and Country Planning Univ of Manchester 1966-69, res asst Urban Systems Res Unit Dept of Geography Univ of Reading 1969-72, lectr in geography Univ of Reading 1972-74 and 1975-76 (reader 1976-79), asst prof (visiting) Dept of Civil Engrg Univ of Waterloo Ontario 1974-75 (adjunct prof of civil engrg 1976, 1977 and 1978); Univ of Wales Cardiff: prof of city and regnl planning 1979-90, dean Sch of Environmental Design 1983-86, head of dept 1985-89; dir Nat Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and prof of geography State Univ of NY Buffalo 1990-95, dir Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and prof of spatial analysis and planning UCL 1995-2004, Bartlett prof of planning UCL 2004-; memb: Scientific Computing Advsy Panel SERC 1989-90, Int Advsy Ctee Nat Lab of Resources and Environmental Info Systems Chinese Acad of Sciences Beijing 1992-, Advsy Panel on Public Sector Information 2003-; Wesley Dougill Prize 1992, Back Award RGS 1999; Hon DLH State Univ of NY Buffalo 2008; AcSS 2001; FRSA 1982, FRTPI 1983 (MRTPI 1971), FCILT 1990 (MCILT 1984), FBA 2001, FRS 2009

Books and Publications: Urban Modelling (1976), Microcomputer Graphics (1987), Fractal Cities (1994), Cities and Complexity (2005)