Marilyne Andersen
Marilyne Andersen is Full Professor at EPFL and Head of the LIPID Laboratory. With a background in physics, she specializes in the psycho-physiological effects of (day)light with broader research interests on sustainability in the built environment. She was previously a professor at MIT, and has been the Dean of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL. She was the inaugural laureate of the global Daylight Research Award in 2016 and is the co-founder of the consulting startup OCULIGHT dynamics.
She co-curated the EPFL Pavilions exhibition entitled Lighten Up! On Biology and Time in 2023 at the interface between art and chronobiology, currently on show at the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur and that will be exhibited at the MIT Museum in Boston from October 2025 to August 2026. She is also author of the Circa Diem immersive installation (exhibited in 2021 at the Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism and in 2023 as part of Lighten Up! On Biology and Time) and of three installations at the Solar Biennale 2 in 2025: Circa Diem 2.0 and Droit au Jour for Soleil·s at mudac and Daylightful Trilogy for Sun Shines on Architecture at EPFL Archizoom.
