Ben Schwegler is a Ph.D. and Vice President and Chief Scientist of Walt Disney Imagineering R&D, responsible for Imagineering’s Sustainable Design and Engineering group; a multidisciplinary organisation of engineers, architects, scientists and other design professionals chartered to understand theinteraction of the built and natural environments. He is also a consulting professor at Stanford University and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency at Stanford and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Technical Divisions.