Prof. Dr. Karola Dierichs

Karola Dierichs holds the Cluster Professorship »Material and Code«. Previously she has been a Research Associate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) within the Cluster of Excellence »Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture« (IntCDC). She was conferred a doctoral degree with distinction from the University of Stuttgart.

At the ICD she has conducted research on »Granular Architectures«, where she has developed designed granular materials in architecture. She has been engaged in transdisciplinary research collaborating nationally and internationally, among others with the Institute for Multiscale Simulation (MSS) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, the Jaeger Lab at the University of Chicago and the Behringer Lab at Duke University.

Her research has been published and exhibited internationally and has won several awards.