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Catherine De Wolf is a professor and director of the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture (CEA) at ETH Zurich. Her work explores digital innovations such as reality capture, digital fabrication, extended reality and AI to advance the built environment towards a circular economy. She has a dual background in civil engineering and architecture and completed her PhD at MIT.

She is the Chair of the Advisory Board to the Centre for Augmented Computational Design in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (Design++) as well as a faculty member at the ETH AI Center, EMPA, the Future Cities Lab, and the National Centre of Competence in Research on Digital Fabrication (DFAB). She actively collaborates with innovative industry practitioners on renowned projects, such as the reuse of materials like glass from the Centre Pompidou in Paris (Elioth) and timber from the Huber pavilions in Zurich (Baubüro in situ). She also worked for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and engineering design offices such as Arup and Ney & Partners.

Throughout her career, she has gained international experience working at institutions like the University of Cambridge, TU Delft, EPFL, Nanjing University, Kuwait University, and the African Urban Metabolism Network.

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