Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). 

Mike has worked on computer models of cities and their visualisation since the 1970s and his most recent publications The New Science of Cities (MIT Press, 2013), Inventing Future Cities (MIT Press, 2018), and the edited volume Urban Informatics (Springer 2021) reflect this focus on the applications of digital technologies to urban planning. 

Mike was first Studio Assistant Lecturer at the University of Manchester, then Lecturer and Reader in Geography at the University of Reading. From 1979 to 1990, he was Professor of City Planning and Dean of the School of Environmental Design at the University of Wales at Cardiff and then from 1990-1995, Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1990 to 1995. 

He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the Royal Society (FRS), the Academy of Social Sciences and the RTPI. He was awarded the CBE in the Birthday Honours List in 2004. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (2015) and the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute (2016). 

He has been the editor of Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, since 1982.