Marilyne Andersen
Associate Professor, Building Technology
Marilyne Andersen is a physics engineer whose principal research interests are the use and optimization of daylight in buildings, which led her to inter-disciplinary exchanges between architecture, physics and environmental concerns. At MIT, she leads the Daylighting Lab since 2004.
Trained in physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and for one year at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, she specialized in daylighting concerns and completed her PhD thesis at the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB) of EPFL in 2004. Her PhD research focused on experimental assessment methods for transmission and reflection properties of advanced window systems. She extended this work to simulation-based methods at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a Visiting Scholar in the Building Technologies Department in 2001-2002. She is an Assistant Professor of Building Technology in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT since the summer of 2004 and the chair holder of the Mitsui Career Development Professorship since July 2008.
Her current research focuses on advanced glazing and shading systems, on daylight redirecting devices, on visual and thermal comfort and the design implications of light on health, as well as on the visualization of daylighting performance and metrics in design.
She teaches a graduate level class on Daylighting and an undergraduate class on Building Technology and is involved in other workshops or classes related to these fields. She supervises thesis work for undergraduate and graduate students mostly in architecture, building technology and mechanical engineering.
