His expertise in computation in architecture led to a professorship at the RWTH Aachen University and his subsequent position as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft. His research has focused on building information modelling (BIM), interactive architecture and the extension of architectural pedagogy through blended-learning practices. He has conducted many student design-build projects to spearhead the idea of learning-by-building. The Counter-Entropy-House in the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 demonstrated resource answerability as well as energy efficiency. He currently serves as the Secretary General of the SDE Secretariat, stewarding the next editions of the Solar Decathlon in Europe.