Junior Professor
Digital Timber Construction DTC, TU Kaiserslautern, Faculty of Architecture
My passion is architectural design and production through digital geometry processing and robotic fabrication. Since 2017, I am leading the Digital Timber Construction group DTC at TU Kaiserslautern, where we explore, research and teach innovative timber structures at the intersection of architecture, structural engineering, manufacturing technology and computer science. Previously I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research Digital Fabrication NCCR dfab at ETH Zurich, as a doctoral assistant at the Timber Construction Laboratory IBOIS at EPFL Lausanne, and as a research associate at the Institute of Computational Design ICD, at the University of Stuttgart. I received a Doctor of Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, and a Professional Diploma in Architecture with Distinction from London Metropolitan University. My research is widely published in scientific journals, books, conferences and exhibitions, and received the best paper award at the Advances in Architectural Geometry conference in 2014. The research has been implemented in innovative timber structures including the 2010 ICD/itke pavilion, 2013 IBOIS curved folded shell, 2017 Lausanne Vidy Theater, 2015-2020 Factory hall in Manternach, 2019 HexBox Canopy, and the 2019 Recycleshell.
09.04.2021 - Online Lecture, CITA, Copenhagen 25.03.2021 - Online Lecture, Yasar University, Izmir 24.03.2021 - Online Lecture, buildingSMART Germany 25.02.2021 - Online Lecture, KlimawandelCOACH 10.12.2020 - Circular Systems Symposium, TUe 30.11.2020 - Online Lecture, TU Innsbruck 25.11.2020 - Reihe Positionen, HTWK Leipzig 18.11.2020 - Online Lecture, GCD TU Wien 17.11.2020 - Online Lecture, UC Berkeley 04.11.2020 - Online Lecture, Chalmers postponed - Nucleo Madeira, São Paulo postponed - Forum Intelligentes Bauen, Köln 19.09.2020 - eCAADe Session Chair, Berlin postponed - Fachseminar Dach, Frankfurt postponed - Future Timber Structures, UQ Brisbane 09.09.2020 - Holzbaunetzwerk Live Webinar 18.06.2020 - Performance Network Live Webinar postponed - Nexus Conference Chair postponed - Forum Wood Spain, Pamplona postponed - Holzinnovationszentrum Zeltweg 31.10.2019 - Wood - Nature's Key, Tallinn 22.10.2019 - SWR Television, 18:15-18:45 25.09.2019 - Forum Wood Nordic, Helsinki 16.08.2019 - University of Sydney CPD 28.05.2019 - LIGNA.forum, Hannover 10.05.2019 - BarCamp Inno4wood, Kempten 09.05.2019 - ETH Zurich 05.04.2019 - SDMA at PBSA Dusseldorf
17.01.2019 - BAU 2019, Munich 06.12.2018 - Int. Forum Holzbau, Garmisch 12.11.2018 - Arch & Computation, Gothenburg 08.11.2018 - Innochain Conference, Copenhagen 29.08.2018 - Internationale Holzmesse Klagenfurt 23.07.2018 - Future Timber Structures, UQ Brisbane 19.07.2018 - SUTD EPD, Singapore 05.07.2018 - Indexlab Workshop, Politecnico Milano 14.06.2018 - ROBinWOOD Symposium, UFG Linz 28.05.2018 - Digital Fabrication Symposium, TUM 26.04.2018 - Karelia Symposium, UEF Kuopio 21.03.2018 - Interview JABS Journal, AIJ Kyoto 24.01.2018 - Laboratoire Navier, ENPC ParisTech 03.11.2017 - Interview at Digital Structures, MIT 02.11.2017 - ACADIA, MIT Cambridge 17.10.2017 - Chalmers, Gothenburg 29.09.2017 - Forum Wood Nordic, Trondheim 25.09.2017 - Oslo School of Architecture AHO 30.03.2017 - TU Kaiserslautern 01.03.2017 - D-BAUG, ETH Zurich 30.11.2016 - RWTH Aachen 18.10.2016 - S-WIN FBK Weinfelden 12.09.2016 - AAG 2016, ETH Zurich 24.08.2016 - WCTE 2016, TU Wien 22.06.2016 - FUTURE WOOD Innochain, KADK 06.04.2016 - S-WIN Industrielle Fertigung, EPFL 18.03.2016 - Rob|Arch 2016 Conference, Sydney
Digital Timber Construction DTC, TU Kaiserslautern, Faculty of Architecture
Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication, EPFL Lausanne / ETH Zürich
Timber Construction Laboratory IBOIS, EPFL Lausanne
Institute for Computational Design ICD, University of Stuttgart
School of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL
Professional Diploma in Architecture with Distinction (RIBA Part 2)
London Metropolitan University