Chair of Digital Architecture and Planning, TU Vienna;
Chairman, OCEAN Design Research Association;
Former Director of RCAT, Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Michael Ulrich Hensel is a German architect, researcher, educator, and writer. His main areas of interest are "Performance-oriented Design" and "Performance-oriented Architecture.” A key proponent of interdisciplinary research by design in architecture since the mid-1990s, he is Founder and current Chairman of OCEAN Design Research Association and the Sustainable Environment Association (SEA).