Professor Joaquín Díaz has been Professor of Construction Informatics and Sustainable Building at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM) since 1999. He studied civil engineering at TU Darmstadt and received his doctorate there in 1996 in the field of construction informatics on the topic of object-oriented modeling, which was an important foundation for today’s BIM 5D modeling. At THM, he also serves as Dean.

He is an expert assessor and advisor to various ministries and an active member of several scientific committees, working groups, and boards. Professionally, he is engaged with the Chamber of Engineers of Hesse. As long-standing Chairman of the Board of the Federal Association for Software and Digitalization in Construction, he was significantly involved in the founding of planen bauen 4.0 GmbH (pb4.0) and today serves on the supervisory board of pb4.0.