Marirena is an architect, researcher and educator with a passion for novel approaches to design and making enabled by digital technologies. Her work explores how digital technologies can expand our creative boundaries, transcending multiple disciplines in order to orchestrate the complex systems that govern our impact on society and the environment at the micro- and macro-level of our materials, design processes, and buildings. Currently she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at EPFL jointly appointed at the Creative Computation Lab and the at the Structural Xploration Lab where she investigates human-robot collaborative workflows for structural reconfiguration and reuse of damaged timber structures.

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She earned her Ph.D. at ETH Zurich in 2023 as a doctoral fellow of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research Digital Fabrication (NCCR fab), supervised by Prof. Dillenburger. Her doctoral research focused on encapsulating all the complexity of bespoke ultralightweight spatial structures in additively manufactured connections.

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Before moving to Switzerland to join ETH Zurich, she was a visiting researcher at the Transformable Intelligent Environments Lab at the Technical University of Crete and also holds a Master in Advanced Studies in Architecture and Digital Fabrication from ETH Zurich (MAS DFAB) and a Diploma of Architectural Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

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Marirena is always curious about new technologies, the creative potential they can unlock for humans, innovative materials, and unique perceptions of space and architectural form.