SST/LOCI Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme (LOCI)
SST/LAB Louvain research institute for Landscape, Architecture, Built environment (LAB)
Adresse postale
LOCI - LOCI TournaiT1.01.01
rue du Glategnies 6
7500 Tournai
Réseaux sociaux
Maider Llaguno-Munitxa is an architect and Associate Professor of Digital Architecture and Environmental Design at UCLouvain, within the Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning (LOCI), and the Louvain Institute of Landscape, Architecture and Built Environment (LAB). She is a member of the Architecture et Climat group and leads the Urban Science, Climate and Health team. Her research work focuses on the study of data science and digital design tools for the development of novel design practices that aim to improve urban environmental quality and health.
Prior to joining UCLouvain, Maider was an assistant professor at the School of Architecture at Northeastern University, and associate research scholar and postdoctoral researcher at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Maider is also partner at the architecture and urban design office AZPML.
Maider obtained her PhD from the Institute of Technology in Architecture ETH Zurich in October 2016. Her research topic focused on the study of architecture and urban design strategies to modulate the urban environment, it's microclimate and air quality. Maider has been recently recipient of the SOM Foundation European Research Prize, GSAPP Columbia University incubator prize, and the Land Der Ideen_Beyond Bauhaus Prototyping the Future Award. Maider has been the awardee of numerous research funding grants from the European Commission, the FNRS, Princeton University, and the Research Unit of the Brussels-Capital Region, amongst others.