Achim Menges

• 2009 – 2015 Visiting Professor of Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• 2008 – present Full Professor (W3), Director of Institute for Computational Design and Construction, University of Stuttgart
• 2005 – 2008 Professor (W2), HfG Offenbach, Department of Form Generation & Materialisation
• 2003 – 2006 Unit Master, Diploma School, Architectural Association, London
• 2002 – 2009 Studio Master, Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Programme, Architectural Association, London

Qualification Indicators

• Awards: Over 30 Awards, e.g., Kunstpreis Baukunst 2015 (Art Award in Architecture) of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (Academy of Arts) (2015), German Design Award - Winner Cat- egory Architecture (2018), Innovative Academic Program Award of the Association for Com- puter Aided Design in Architecture (2015), Wilhelm-Klauditz-Award for Wood Research (2015), Timber Construction Award of the State of Baden-Württemberg for Groundbreaking Innovation (2015), Holcim Acknowledgment Award (2014), Pioneering Research Award of the Association for Robots in Architecture (2014), International Design Award (2011)
• Publications: Over 140 peer reviewed publications and 15 books/special issues
• Keynotes and Plenary Lectures: Over 200 invited keynotes and plenary lectures
• Exhibitions: Work has been exhibited in over 70 exhibitions and forms part of the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou Paris and the Victoria & Albert Museum London
• Since 2017: Vice-Dean of Research, Faculty of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Stuttgart
• Since 2017: Director of the Advisory Technical Committee of the Shanghai Digital Construction Engineering Research Centre (SFAB)
• Since 2010: Board member of the Biomimetic Competence Network Baden-Württemberg, deputy spokesperson of the University of Stuttgart
• Since 2011: Member of The Association of German Engineers (VDI) work group “VDI Richtlinie 6226: Bionik - Architektur, Industriedesign und Ingenieurbau”
• Scientific Reviewer: for SNF Swiss National Science Foundation, ISF Israel Science Foundation, AV-NUR Italian Ministry of Education and Research, FCT Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
• Scientific Committees / Reviewer: IJAC International Journal of Architectural Computing, Architectural Design Journal, CAD Journal, ACADIA Conferences Design Modelling Symposia, Fabricate Conferences, Robots in Architecture Conferences, AAG Conferences

• Director
• Spokesperson of the Cluster
• Principal Investigator
• Research Infrastructure Commission

• RP 3-1 – Multi-Storey Wood Building System
• RP 3-2 – Co-Design, Adaptation, Integration and Optimization of Multi-Storey Timber Building Systems for Building Stock Extension
• RP 4-1 – Cyber-Physical Wood Fabrication Platform
• RP 4-2 – Cyber-Physical Fabrication Platform: Fluid Fabrication
• RP 10-1 – Architectural, Historical and Social Science Perspectives
• RP 10-2 – Co-Design from Architectural, Social and Computational Perspectives
• RP 11-1 – Long-span Fibre Composite Structures
• RP 11-2 – Hybrid FRP-Timber Building System and Material System Development for Long-Span Structures and Existing Building Stock Extensions
• RP 12-1 – Computational Design for Fibre Composite Building Systems
• RP 12-2 – Computational Co-Design Framework for Fibre Composite Building Systems
• RP 14-1 – Cyper-Physical Prefabrication Platform for Fibre Composites
• RP 14-2 – Extension of the Cyber-Physical Prefabrication Platform
• RP 19-1 – Robotic Kinematic System for Parallel Construction
• RP 19-2 – Co-Design Methods for Developing Distributed Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems for Construction

• AP 1 – Responsive Autonomous Surface Structures
• AP 2 – Timber Construction 4.0
• AP 3 – Application Methods of Curved Wood Components
• AP 4 – Agent-Based Methos for Modular Precast Concrete Construction
• AP 10 – Smarter Smart Materials
• AP 12 – Natural Fibre Structures
• AP 13 – Robotic Screw-Press Gluing
• AP 14 – Wood Building Systems for Distributed Robotics
• AP 15 – Mono-Material Solid-Timber Construction
• AP 19 – Collaborative Robotics with Deformable Materials
• AP 27 – Self-Forming Cylindrical Wood Structures
• AP 28 – Robots/ Reuse
• AP 29 – AR-Informed Collaborative Timber (Pre-) Fabrication