Christian Derix is a principal of Woods Bagot and the Global Leader of SUPERSPACE, the design research agency of Woods Bagot. SUPERSPACE has been a pioneer in computational design since 2004 when Derix set up the first global professional Computational Design group at Aedas in London, to focus on users and spatial design. The work of the group won awards in various domains such as the 2010 President's Medal commendation of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for Research in Practice for its Open Framework for Spatial Simulation, the 2011 Compasso d'Oro Honoray Mention for the interactive and generative web-based furniture system called VITA and the 2012 CTBUH Innovation Award for the Activated Façade for Al Bahr Towers. Derix holds a PhD from Technical University Vienna and has been teaching at various European universities, completing visiting professorships at Technical University Munich, Germany and University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. His master project for design computing in 2000 developed an unsupervised ANN for urban analysis using SOMs.