Assistant Professor Tenure Track
Sarah Nichols is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at EPFL and director of the lab THEMA (Theory of Environment and Materials in Architecture) within the Institute of Architecture at EPFL. Prior to joining EPFL, she was an Assistant Professor of Architecture (tenure track) at Rice University in Houston. She studied architecture at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and received her doctorate (Dr. Sc.) at ETH Zurich for which she was awarded the ETH Medal. Sarah Nichols’s scholarly work examines the environmental and political entanglements of construction, particularly through building materials. Her material retrospective “Beton” was recently shown at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. She is currently working on a book manuscript Opération Béton: Constructing Concrete in Switzerland based on her dissertation.