Nick Tyler CBE FREng is the Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering at UCL and the Creator/Director of the a £50M massive (44,000m3) multiscale multisensorial Person Environment-Activity Research Laboratory (PEARL). Using his musician background, this allows him and his team to study the transdisciplinary interactions of environments, people and their activities at life-scale, from axons and dendrites to complex urban environments and vehicles. In this way, Nick is seeking to explain how we perceive and act in the worlds we encounter. He puts this into practice through collaborations with national and city governments around the world, with particular emphasis on implementing accessible transport and urban systems. Nick is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, and the Royal Society of Arts, was appointed CBE in 2011, and awarded the CIHT Institution Award in 2022.