María Cecilia Chiappini, PhD in Architecture (KU Leuven), MAS in Urban Design (ETH), Architect (UNL)
María Cecilia Chiappini (1983) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Architecture, and Docent of Design Studio at the Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Chiappini graduated as PhD in Architecture at KU Leuven (2021); as a Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (with a scholarship by the Swiss Government, 2012); and as an Architect from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina (2007).
Previous to joining KU Leuven, Cecilia worked in private practices at Mecanoo Architecten, The Netherlands (2013-2015) and at IN-VI Investment Environments (2008-2009) in several locations mainly in Latin America and Eastern Europe. She also has worked in the public sector contributing to the Territorial Strategic Plan of the Province of Santa Fe and teaching at her home university in Argentina.
Her recently completed doctoral research addressed the relationship between infrastructure under transformation as spaces of collectivities in the case of Glòries, Barcelona, Spain; under the supervision of Profs. Kris Scheerlinck and Yves Schoonjans.
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