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architecture educator

Marilyne Andersen, Swiss architecture educator. Achievements include researching advanced glazing and shading systems, dynamic daylight simulation methods, and emerging metrics in lighting design; guest speaker at Architectural Record conference 2007, Lightfair 2006, 2007, NESEA Building Energy conference 2006 & 2007; developed Daylighting Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Background

Andersen, Marilyne was born on September 27, 1974 in Zurich, Switzerland. Daughter of William and Sybille Thys.

Education

Master of Science in Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1998. Doctor of Philosophy in Building Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 2004.

Career

Research and teaching assistant Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1998—2004. Visiting scholar Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, 2001—2002. Assistant professor building technical and daylighting Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 2004.

Achievements

  • Marilyne Andersen has been listed as a notable architecture educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of Society Building Science Educators, International and American Solar Energy Society, Illuminating Engineering Society.

Connections

Married Igor Andersen, June 26, 1998.

Father:
William Thys

Mother:
Sybille Thys

Spouse:
Igor Andersen

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Awards

  • Recipient Swiss Federal Institute of Technology prize, Chorafas Foundation, 2004, PATH award, National Science Foundation, 2005. Fellow, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2001-2002. Grantee Boston Society Architects research grant, 2007. Erasmus fellow, Catholic University Louvain, 1995-1996.