His background is in architecture and building technology. He holds a PhD form MIT, an MDes from Harvard GSD and a Dipl.Ing. from TU Darmstadt. Timur's research expertise is in daylight and energy modelling, passive climate control strategies and performance driven design workflows in both urban and architectural scales. His work has been supported by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future, an MIT Presidential Fellowship, Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH, the German Academic Exchange Service-DAAD and the German National Academic Foundation.