Senior professor Pascal Perez is a world leader in the participatory modelling of complex socio-technical systems. He is currently director of the SMART Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong, overseeing research in infrastructure-related fields such as water and energy efficiency, future transport and mobility, smart cities and communities, or infrastructure system engineering and logistics. As director, he is responsible for SMART’s academic governance and for establishing strategic scientific partnerships in Australia and beyond.