Marilyne Andersen's nomination as Full Professor

Marilyne Andersen is a physics engineer, specialized in daylighting and passive solar strategies for buildings. After having obtained her PhD at EPFL, she started her professional career as Assistant then Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT USA) where she launched and was head of the MIT Daylighting Lab since 2004. She then joined the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL in 2010 where she pursues pioneering work in comfort and health implications of daylight as well as low-energy building technologies. This interdisciplinary focus at the interface between the domains of architectural design, building engineering and more fundamental science has opened new development and cooperation perspectives between otherwise remote research fields. Marilyne Andersen will become Dean of the ENAC School on September 1, 2013 (read interview).

Marilyne Andersen has been teaching doctoral, graduate and undergraduate level classes on Daylighting and Building Technology and has been involved in workshops, studios or classes related to these fields. She has been and is supervising research and thesis work for undergraduate and graduate students in architecture, building technology and mechanical, civil and environmental engineering.

She is head of the laboratory LIPID, research group created when she arrived in 2010 and currently has five doctoral theses in progress.