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Assoc Prof Chang Jiat Hwee commenced his appointment as Cluster Leader of the Science, Technology, and Society Cluster on 1 July 2022. He is on a joint appointment with the Department of Architecture, NUS College of Design and Engineering.

Assoc Prof Chang has a PhD in Architecture from University of California Berkeley. He is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersections of architecture, environment and STS. His current research interests revolve around the socio-political, technoscientific, and built environmental aspects of addressing the climate crisis. They include (1) thermal politics and climate change; (2) energy, infrastructure and low carbon futures; and (3) critical carbon heritage.  He is the author of A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience (2016), which was awarded an International Planning History Society Book Prize 2018 and shortlisted for the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Humanities Book Prize 2017. His latest book, Everyday Modernism: Architecture and Society in Singapore (co-authored with Justin Zhuang and Darren Soh), was published in late 2022.