Maroula Zacharias is an Architect and Computational Designer based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a first-year DDes student, advised by Professor Martin Bechthold and Professor Sawako Kaijima. Her research interests are related to advanced material systems, human-centered and data-driven design. She holds a Diploma in Architectural Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and a Master of Science (SMArchS 2018) in Computational Design from MIT. Prior to joining the DDes program, she was a Visiting Lecturer at MIT, where she taught classes on Computational Design & Fabrication, Assistive Design and Design Thinking at the MIT Department of Architecture and at the MIT School of Engineering. Parallel to her teaching, she has worked as a researcher in Human-Computer Interaction at the Human-Computer Interaction Engineering (HCIE) Lab at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Parallel to her research and teaching, she loves engaging in curatorial activities that blend architecture, design and technology. A recent example of her curatorial work is “Design on Display” at MIT in 2019.

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Website: www.maroulazacharias.com