费道闻教授是一位具有丰富经验的设计教育者和研究者，研究领域包括设计计算、设计控制论、设计几何学以及数字媒体。费教授曾在香港理工大学教授交互系统设计以及工业和产品设计超过十年，在西交利物浦大学教授建筑和工业设计十年；曾任国立成功大学和洪堡大学访问学者。他在卡塞尔大学获得教育学博士学位，在皇家墨尔本理工大学获得建筑和设计学博士学位，在哈佛大学获得网络安全研究生证书。费教授发表过一百余篇经同行评审的学术论文。他目前为设计研究学会成员，控制论学会成员，国际系统与控制论科学院认证人才以及美国控制论学会所颁发的Warren McCulloch奖得主，并担任科技公司anabrid首席设计官。
发表文章：
Thomas Fischer and Christiane M. Herr (2019). An Introduction to design cybernetics, in: Thomas Fischer and Christiane M. Herr (eds.), Design Cybernetics. Navigating the New, Springer, Cham, 1-23. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18557-2_1.
Thomas Fischer (2018). Kybernetik für Medienwissenschaftler, in: Stefan Hoeltgen, Thorsten Schoeler, Johannes Maibaum, and Thomas Fischer (eds.), Medientechnisches Wissen Band 2: Informatik, Programmieren, Kybernetik, DeGruyter, Oldenburg, 273-433. ISBN: 978-3-11-049625-3.
Thomas Fischer (2020). Narratives of exploration： From "Failure is not an option” to "Try again. Fail again. Fail better", Kybernetes, 49(8), 2091-2108, DOI: 10.1108/K-07-2019-0502.
Thomas Fischer (2019). Trtanscomputability, (Glanville's Corollary of) Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety, and epistemic processes, Kybernetes, 48(4), 793-804, DOI: 10.1008/K-11-2017-0457.
Christiane M. Herr and Thomas Fischer (2018). Building information modeling adoption in the context of the Chinese AEC industries: An extended BIM adoption model, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, 6(2), 173-178, DOI：10.1016/j.jcde.2018.06.001.
Thomas Fischer (2017). A cybernetic perspective on determinability and design research, Kybernetes, 46(9), 1588-1596, DOI: 10.1108/K-10-2016-0269.
Thomas Fischer and Laurence D. Richards (2017). From goal-oriented to constraint-oriented design: The cybernetic intersection of design theory and systems theory, Leonardo Journal, 50(1), 36-41, DOI: 10.1162/LEON_a_00862.
Thomas Fischer (2015). Wiener's prefiguring of a cybernetic design theory, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 34(3), 52-59, DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2015. 2461172,
Thomas Fischer (2014). Scientific research into designing, while doing justice to designing, Architectural Science Review, 57(4), 240-248, open access, DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2014.958128.
Thomas Fischer (2014). Circular causality and indeterminism in machines for design, Frontiers of Architectural Research, 3(4), 368-375, open access, DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2014.06.003.
