Laura Vaughan is Professor of Urban Form and Society and the Director of the Space Syntax Laboratory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

She completed a Bachelor of Design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem in 1989. From 1988 onwards she worked at Shlomo Aronson Landscape Architects and then for Yoram Fogel Architects, both in Jerusalem, Israel. She also worked as an illustrator for the David Kroyanker series of books on the architecture of Jerusalem.

Laura returned to London in 1992 to take an MSc in Advanced Architectural Studies at the Bartlett, UCL. She subsequently studied for an EPSRC funded PhD in Architecture (completed 1999) while working as a Research Associate and Company Secretary at Space Syntax Ltd.

Laura joined the Space Syntax Lab in 2001 as a lecturer and MSc programme director. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007 and to Professor in 2011. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 2005. She was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2015.

In addition to her extensive research and teaching activities, Laura is regularly invited to disseminate knowledge to industry, policy-makers and the general public. She has worked with Museum of London on an exhibition on London's East End and has contributed to several programmes on BBC radio and television.