Dimitris Pallantzas is a Building Physicist with a background of Applied Mathematics and Physics. Since 2016 he is a Certified Passivhaus Consultant and in 2019 he was accredited as the youngest Passivhaus Trainer worldwide. Currently he is leading Hellenic Passive House Institute's Training Department and he is also a Senior PhD Researcher & Lecturer at National Technical University of Athens, contributing in 11 EU funded Research Projects. He has participated in more than 80 Passivhaus Projects worldwide balancing his interest between design (Dynamic, CFD, Steady State) & construction, while focusing on bridging the gap between them, elevating collaboration between stakeholders. He speaks English, German, Spanish, French and Greek.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ebru BİNGÖL is a faculty member in the Department of Architecture at İskenderun Technical University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture (Ankara University), a Master’s degree in Urban Design (Middle East Technical University), and a PhD in Architecture (Izmir Institute of Technology). She has previously worked at İzmir University of Economics, Yaşar University, Izmir Institute of Technology, and Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, in their respective Departments of Architecture. During her doctoral studies, she was supported by TÜBİTAK as a visiting researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Between February 2022 and February 2023, she carried out postdoctoral research on urban morphology at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom, again with TÜBİTAK funding. She has received awards in national competitions and served as a consultant for various municipalities as well as UNDP projects. With funding from Spaces of Culture, she led the project Flow Tales: Re-Membering Antakya’s River Landscape, and she edited the interdisciplinary book Tale of A River City: Reading Urban Histories of Antakya Through the Asi River. Her research interests include post–World War II architectural and urban theories, urban design, urban morphology, and the relationship between city, land, and context.

Self-employed since 1998 as advisor and lecturer for ecological building and building with
earth, organization and managing of Workshops, Fairs, scientific translation Engl.-German,

Lecturer for sustainable building and earth building (since 2015) at the Hochschule Anhalt,
Anhalt University of Applied Science, at the Erfurt University of Applied Science (since 2019)

Currently – Project Staff at the Erfurt University of Applied Science
Institute for Quality management and Building Physics

Study finished 1996
Diploma at the Bauhaus- University Weimar as Civil engineer
Special topic: „Planning and building in developing countries“,
„Restoration and conservation of buildings“, „Building with Earth“, „Building with wood“,
Diploma: New buildings with earth in Germany, survey and draft of a building with earth

haascookzemmrich STUDIO2050, Founder & Partner David Cook is a registered architect in Germany and the UK. He has worked on a variety of masterplanning projects on both sides of the Atlantic, including the redevelopment of the ‘Lower Don’ in Toronto, Canada. As a partner in Behnisch Architekten from 2005-2012, David Cook was responsible for projects including the Brooklyn Art Tower in New York, USA and the National Centre for Tumour Diseases in Heidelberg, Germany. After 6 years of partnership, Cook, together with Martin
Haas and Stephan Zemmrich, founded his own office ‘haascookzemmrich STUDIO2050’ in April 2012 with projects in Germany and abroad. Cook was the partner responsible for the ‘Music School and Concert Hall’ project in Ventspils, Latvia. The building was opened in July 2019 with a festive concert. At the moment he is responsible for the sustainable redevelopment of several office buildings and a Residential complex being constructed with wood as a IBA Project near Stuttgart. David Cook was also a visiting professor in the Pietro Belluschi series for architectural design at the University of Oregon, USA, and continues to maintain close ties with the faculty

Mihriban Sarı is currently working as an R&D Specialist at Betek Boya ve Kimya Sanayi A.Ş. while pursuing her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Yalova University.
Throughout her career, she has led projects in ecological insulation solutions, functional coatings, advanced paint technologies, and digitalization. She has played an active role in numerous innovative initiatives that bridge industry and academia.

Dr. Hossein Sadri is an activist, scholar, and designer working at the intersection of permaculture and architecture. He has held academic appointments in Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Cyprus, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His research explores regenerative design, Indigenous practices, human rights, and the right to the city, with a focus on how built environments can foster ecological resilience and social justice.
Dr. Hossein Sadri, Kıdameli Öpretim Üyesi, Coventry Üniversitesi, Birleşik Kırallık
Dr. Hossein Sadri aktivist, akademisyen ve permakültür ve mimarlık kesişiminde çalışan bir tasarımcıdır. İran, Azerbaycan, Türkiye, Kıbrıs, Birleşik Krallık ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nde akademik görevlerde bulunmuştur. Araştırmaları; rejeneratif tasarım, yerli halkların uygulamaları, insan hakları ve kente hak üzerine yoğunlaşmaktadır ve özellikle de yapılı çevrelerin ekolojik dayanıklılığı ve sosyal adaleti nasıl destekleyebileceğine odaklanmaktadır.

Dr. Ipek Ölcüm, born in Berlin, is a Specialist Lawyer in Construction and Architectural Law and a Certified Business Mediator (IHK). Since June 2023, she has been Managing Director of the Industrieverband Lehmbaustoffe e.V. (German Industry Association for Earth Building Materials - Alman Toprak Yapı Malzemeleri Sanayi Birliği), which she co-founded. Previously, she served as Managing Director of the Bundesverband Mineralische Rohstoffe e.V., responsible for legal matters related to raw material security, environmental protection, and post-mining land use.
After her doctorate and Second State Examination, she practised law focusing on construction, architectural, engineering, and procurement law. At the Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (DIBt), she worked as Legal Counsel before leading the Market Surveillance Department and the Joint Market Surveillance Authority of the German states for harmonised construction products.
Voluntarily, she chairs at NABU (Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union) the arbitration board and serves on the jury for the German Raw Material Efficiency Award (Deutscher Rohstoffeffizienzpreis).

Mihriban Sarı is currently working as an R&D Specialist at Betek Boya ve Kimya Sanayi A.Ş. while pursuing her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Yalova University.
Throughout her career, she has led projects in ecological insulation solutions, functional coatings, advanced paint technologies, and digitalization. She has played an active role in numerous innovative initiatives that bridge industry and academia.

Mete Varas has been a prominent entrepreneur in technology businesses, involved in numerous ventures as a founder, advisor, and NED. Besides thinking, writing, and advising on proptech, innovation, and transformation, he’s the founder of the "EurAsia Proptech Initiative" and the "ME Proptech Initiative".

He's one of the ambassadors for Ocean Protocol and a writer for SciFuture.

Being graduated from Koç University Economy department, she worked in for nearly 8 years in pioneering enterprises on design, communication, process, event management before setting about her own endeavors in Turkey. In parallel to her work experience in design and communication she attended in between 2001-2004 to ‘Design Management Certificate Program’ and ‘Visual Communication Master Program’ in Bilgi University. Especially 2008 onwards she has followed closely international sustainability agenda and organized the first international Eco-design Meeting in Turkey, including two conferences and 2 parallel exhibitions that lasted two weeks on May 2009.

Her experience and network has been solidified in the master program of Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability (MSLS) where she had the opportunity to work in a multicultural environment with sustainability enthusiasts and being included to an international sustainability expert network. Since 2011 onwards, she works in the field of sustainable living and settlements, mainly focused on natural and healthy buildings. In 2015 she co-founded Building Biology and Ecology Institute- YBE in Turkey where she leads projects and communication works. In 2018, she was one of the initiators of the Natural Building Materials Working Group, which—thanks to her genuine efforts—evolved into a vibrant community and eventually gave birth to the Natural Building Materials and Methods Association (NBMM), where she serves as a founding member and an active board member. She also has a substantial contribution to the construction of Kadıovacık Biohouse which is a flagship building realized with building biology and ecology principles that is also the center of YBE and NBMM. Moreover, she is the co-founder of Okil Natural Building Materials brand.

• 2012: Bachelor's degree in Political Science (focus on Governance & European Policy) in the Lower Bavarian European & Three River City of Passau.
• 2016: Master's degree in International Relations (focus on Trade & Development Economics) in Barcelona and the Saxon cultural city of Dresden.
• 2016: Research Assistant for Dr. Lars Castellucci, Member of the German Bundestag (Interior Committee).
• 2018: Start at natureplus association and since 2020 Director of the non-profit environmental association for sustainable building and living

• Free time with climbing, sailing, scouts, theatre, and architecture.

Born in 1962 in Tokyo,Tsuneo Ishikawa studied architecture at Waseda University and worked as an assistant to Professor Agematsu at Tokai University from 1987 to 1997. He was a DAAD scholarship holder at the Technical University of Munich from 1991 to 1993 and completed his doctorate in Tokyo in 1995. Since 1997, he has served as a lecturer, and from 2001 as a professor, at the Maebashi Institute of Technology. In 2004, he founded the architectural office Bio-Haus-Japan, and in 2005, he established the Building Biology Institute of Japan (BIJ). He received the Baubiologe IBN certification in Germany in 2011 and has been conducting the Fernlehrgang Baubiologie Japan program, training 26 building biologists to date. Since 2025, he serves on the board of the Baubiologie Institute of Japan (BIJ e.V.).
His publications include Rammed Clay as the Earth Building of the Future (2017) and Style Synthesis: The Theory of Architecture in 19th-Century Germany (2017), along with Japanese editions of Form-Drawing by Rudolf Kutzli (1997–98), Wege zum gesunden Bauen by Holger Koenig (2000), 25 Basic Rules of Building Biology by Anton Schneider (2003), and Building Biology in Practice in Japan (2006). He has also been the editor of the magazine Building Biology (BIJ) since 2005. Notable architectural works include the Arai Children’s Hospital, Takasaki (2001), Yawata Kindergarten, Takasaki (2010), and MOMO toy store (2010).

Yener Coşkun is an associate professor in finance specialising in ESG, REITs, and (business/real estate) valuation. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School, UPENN (the US, 2003, funded by CMB), the University of Sheffield (the UK, 2019) and Concordia University (Canada, 2024) funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Yener has authored four books, edited two books, and written numerous peer-reviewed and professional articles in finance and macroeconomics. His Google Scholar citation record stands at +1,900, with an h-index of 20 and an i10-index of 39. His research has been published in journals such as Housing Studies, Emerging Markets Review, Empirical Economics, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, and the International Journal of Finance & Economics. Additionally, he has written more than90 popular op-eds in various newspapers, industry magazines, and popular science magazines. Selected previous international professional/academic experiences of Coskun were: a member of RICS (MRICS), consultative member of RICS Sustainability Task Force Europe, acting chair for European Real Estate Society (ERES) Ph.D. Student Committee (in 2010-2013), and deputy chairman of the Education Committee of the Association of Appraisal Experts of Turkey (in 2017). Dr. Coskun was visiting lecturer for the University of Sarajevo (2012-2013), Izmir University of Economics (2012-2016), Middle East Technical University (2017-2018), University of Ljubljana (Summer School) (2018), University of Sheffield (2019), and the TED University (2019-2023). Yener serves the Executive Committee Member for Real Estate Investors Association of Türkiye (GYODER) and Global WG member at RICS ESG in Commercial Real Estate Valuation. Yener has been a senior regulator at the Capital Markets Board of Turkey during 1995-2025 and currently adjunct lecturer at Izmir University of Economics since 2025.

After his apprenticeship in carpentry and architectural studies in Munich, Winfried Schneider established an architectural office in Rosenheim in 1990 together with his wife Karin Hick, architect. They carried out all building processes and finishing constructions from planning and design of new buildings and renovations, always having the building biology approach in mind.

Parallel, he was also involved at the "Institute for Building Biology + Sustainability IBN“, established by his father Prof. PhD Anton Schneider in 1983, formerly located in Neubeuern, now in Rosenheim / Germany. Since 2010 he is managing director of IBN, mainly responsible for the content of the state-recognized correspondence course of Building Biology IBN and specialist publications. He also conducts seminars, lectures or advises clients and construction companies.

He is particularly interested in the promotion of creative crafts, the realization of eco-social community projects and, above all, the commitment to a healthy, nature-loving, mentally and socially oriented constructions and living culture.