Self-Repairing-Cities | Mark Miodownik | TEDxMünchen

Mark Miodownik is Professor of Materials & Society, Materials Scientist, Engineer and New York Times bestseller author. Mark was included in the The Times list of the Top 100 most influential people in UK science. His research focuses on understanding interactions between our technology, our society and the ecological environment. In his talk Mark explains how self-healing technology promise to yield cities that are more like forests, in that they are self-sustaining ecosystems. "{...} A sustainable city of the future is a self-repairing city." He is the UCL Professor of Materials & Society. He received his Ph.D in turbine jet engine alloys from Oxford University, and has worked as a materials engineer in the USA, Ireland and the UK. For more than twenty years he has championed materials science research that links to the arts and humanities, medicine, and society. This culminated in the establishment of the UCL Institute of Making, where he is a director and runs the research programme. Mark also recently set up the Plastic Waste Innovation Hub to carry our research into solving the environmental catastrophe of plastic waste. Mark is the multi-award-winning author of New York Times bestselling book Stuff Matters. He regularly presents BBC TV and radio programmes on materials science and engineering. In 2014 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2018 he was awarded an MBE for services to materials science, engineering, and broadcasting. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx