Dr. Martin Röck is a built environment researcher focused on improving climate and environmental performance of buildings at scale. He applies life cycle-based assessment methods, building information modelling and data science to inform environmental benchmarking and target setting as well as to identify and promote effective building design strategies for advancing a regenerative development of spatial systems at large. Martin works with policy makers and industry leaders at national, European and Global levels to support tangible action for reducing embodied impacts and improving whole life cycle performance of buildings. Martin Röck conducted research at TU Graz, ETH Zurich, UNICAMP, and KU Leuven. He holds a Dual PhD in Architectural Engineering and Engineering Sciences. For his research on the importance of Embodied GHG Emissions across the Life Cycle of Buildings he has been awarded a Research Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and received the Highest Cited Paper Award of Applied Energy.