Marilyne Andersen

Full Professor
marilyne.andersen@epfl.ch +41 21 693 08 82 http://lipid.epfl.ch
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Fields of expertise
Daylighting Strategies
Design-Decision Support
Human Comfort and Perception
Light and Health
Biography
Marilyne Andersen owns a Master of Science in Physics and specialized in daylighting through her PhD in Building Physics at EPFL in the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO) and as a Visiting Scholar in the Building Technologies Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
Her research lies at the interface between science, engineering and architectural design with a dedicated emphasis on the impact of daylight on building occupants. Focused on questions of comfort, perception and health and their implications on energy considerations, these research efforts aim towards a deeper integration of the design process with daylighting performance and indoor comfort, by reaching out to various fields of science, from chronobiology and neuroscience to psychophysics and computer graphics. She is leveraging this research in practice through OCULIGHT dynamics, a startup company she co-founded, which offers specialized consulting services on daylight performance and its psycho-physiological effects on building occupants.
She is the author of more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences and the recipient of several grants and awards including: the Daylight Award for Research (2016), ten publication awards and distinctions (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2019) including the Taylor Technical Talent Award 2009 granted by the Illuminating Engineering Society, the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Grant (2009), the Mitsui Career Development Professorship at MIT (2008) and the EPFL prize of the Chorafas Foundation awarded to her PhD thesis in Sustainability (2005). Her research or teaching has been supported by professional, institutional and industrial organizations such as: the Swiss and the U.S. National Science Foundations, the Velux Foundation, the European Horizon 2020 program, the Boston Society of Architects, the MIT Energy Initiative and InnoSuisse. She was the leader and faculty advisor of the Swiss Team and its NeighborHub project, who won the U.S. Solar Decathlon 2017 competition with 8 podiums out of 10 contests.
She is a member of the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction and Head of its Academic Committee. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Building and Environment by Elsevier, and of the journals LEUKOS (of the Illuminating Engineering Society) and Buildings and Cities, by Taylor and Francis. She is expert to the Innovation Council of InnoSuisse and Founding member as well as Board member of the Foundation Culture du Bâti (CUB), and is also founding member of the Daylight Academy and an active member of several committees of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and International Commission on Illumination (CIE).
Publications
Infoscience publications
Conference papers
Triggers behind human-building interactions from a user perspective: results and effectiveness of capturing motivations in real-time
2020-10-21. BEHAVE 2020 6th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 21-23, 2020.Light hygiene in the built environment
2020-09-14. Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture 2020, Online, September 14-25, 2020.Talks
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Theses
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Books
An Occupant-Driven Perspective
EXPLORING : research-driven building design; PARK Books, 2019-05-08.Intensification of use: an exploratory study
EXPLORING: research-driven building design; Zürich: Park Books, 2019-05-01. p. 276.The smart living lab and its flagship building
Exploring - Research-Driven Building Design; Zürich, Switzerland: Park Books, 2019. p. 276.Beyond Circularity
The Materials Book; Berlin: Ruby Press, 2019. p. 400.Low-carbon thermal inertia
Exploring. Research-driven Building Design. Towards 2050; Zürich: Park Books, 2019. p. 276.Lessons learned from a living lab research process
EXPLORING / Research-driven Building Design. Towards 2050; Zürich: Park Books, 2019. p. 276.A data-driven approach for lifecycle performance
EXPLORING / Research-driven Building Design. Towards 2050; Zürich: Park Books, 2019. p. 276.Research at the service of building design
Exploring / Research-driven Building Design. Towards 2050; Zürich: Park Books, 2019. p. 276.EXPLORING. Research-driven Building Design
Zurich: Park Books.THINKING. Visions for Architectural Design
Zurich: Park Books.An occupant driven perspective
Exploring Research-driven Building Design; Zurich: Park Books, 2019.Swiss Living Challenge – Récit d’une aventure victorieuse
Genève: ENAC-EPFL and HEAD-Genève.Daylight in the built environment
Changing perspectives on daylight: Science, technology, and culture; Washington, DC: Science/AAAS, 2017. p. 46.Robustesse de l'évaluation du potentiel solaire de formes urbaines différenciées
Suburban polarity; Lausannes: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes (PPUR), 2017. p. 141-150.Potentiel solaire et forme urbaine
Urban Recovery; Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2015. p. 97-106.GREEN DENSITY
Lausanne, Switzerland: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.Influence de la forme urbaine sur le potentiel solaire
GREEN DENSITY; Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2013.Annual Dynamics of Daylight Variability and Contrast: A Simulation-Based Approach to Quantifying Visual Effects in Architecture
London: Springer.Delight in Greener Daylight - A Publication based on the outcomes of the Fall 2009 ‘Daylighting’ class
Building Technology Program, MIT Department of Architecture: Lulu.com.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Architecture