Loughborough University, UK

After graduating from the Special Engineering Programme at Brunel University in 1985, Ian Campbell worked as a design engineer, first in Ford Motor Company, and later in the Rover Group.  In 1989, he was appointed as a Senior Teaching Fellow for CAD/CAM at the University of Warwick.  This gave him the opportunity to raise his awareness of CAD/CAM technology and practices.  He remained in this position for four years, during which time, he undertook a part-time MSc degree by research.  In 1993, he obtained a lectureship at the University of Nottingham and gained his PhD, again through part-time study, in 1998.  He moved to Loughborough University in October 2017, where he was appointed as a senior lecturer. His current position, since April 2017, is Professor of Computer Aided Product Design in the School of Design and Creative Arts. He is currently supervising several research projects, mainly in the area of design interaction and 3D printing technologies. Prof Campbell is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and was Editor-in-Chief of the Rapid Prototyping Journal from 1995 to 2020. He is also a Visiting Professor at Vaal University of Technology in South Africa and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China.

Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Spain

Alberto T. Estévez is an Architect (with the Architecture Ph.D. of Sciences) and Art Historian (with the Art History Ph.D. of Arts), with professional office of architecture and design in Barcelona. He founded the ESARQ, the School of Architecture of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona, 1996), where he teaches as Professor-Chairman, after being its first Director. He also founded there in 2000 the Biodigital Architecture Master and the Genetic Architectures Research Group, with the world’s first laboratory where -for first time in the history of architecture- geneticists are working with architectural objectives, in a real application of genetics to architecture. Now, he is also Director of the Architecture PhD Program and Vice-Chancellor/General-Manager of UIC Barcelona. He has written more than one hundred publications, articles and books, and has participated in a very large number of exhibitions, congresses and conferences around Europe, America and Asia.

University of Westminster, UK

Arthur Mamou-Mani is a French architect and director of the award-winning practice Mamou-Mani Architects, specialised in a new kind of digitally designed and fabricated architecture. He is a lecturer at the University of Westminster and owns a digital fabrication laboratory called the FabPub which allows people to experiment with large 3D Printers and Laser Cutters. Since 2016, he is a fellow of the The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He has won the RIBA Rising Star Award 2017 and the Gold Prize at the American Architecture Prize for the Wooden Wave project installed at BuroHappold Engineering. Arthur gave numerous talks including the TedX conference in the USA and has been featured in The New-York Times, Forbes. and on the cover of the Financial Times for the project Conifera with COS. Prior to founding Mamou-Mani in 2011, he worked with Atelier Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid Architects and Proctor and Matthews Architects.

University of Michigan, USA

Dr. Arash Adel is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He currently teaches in the Master of Science in Digital and Material Technologies program and leads the program’s Capstone Studio. He is also one of the core faculty members of the Ph.D. in Architecture program. Adel received his Master’s in Architecture from Harvard University and his Doctorate in Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).

Adel’s interdisciplinary research is at the intersection of design, computation, engineering, and robotic construction. He is particularly known for his work with novel integrative computational design methods coupled with robotic assembly techniques for manufacturing nonstandard multi-story timber buildings. In his doctoral research at ETH, he contributed to the widely-published DFAB HOUSE and led the computational design of its robotically-fabricated timber frame structure.

Joao Pedro Faustino dos Santos

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