Catherine De Wolf is MIT top innovator
Catherine De Wolf, D-BAUG assistant professor, was named to MIT Technology Review's “Innovators Under 35” list. She is acknowledged for her efforts to use digital technology, such as AI algorithms, to move the built environment towards a circular economy. The annual list recognizes exceptionally talented young innovators whose work has the greatest potential to transform the world.
Catherine De Wolf has been working on material cycles in the construction industry for over a decade. With the help of digital tools, she wants to shift construction from a linear take-make-waste model to a circular model where resources are prevented from becoming waste. Her Database of Embodied Quantity Outputs (DEQO) traces material stocks and the environmental impacts of hundreds of buildings worldwide while the knowledge-sharing network platform DiCE lab she co-founded connects stakeholders of the digital circular economy.
In the words of MIT technology’s review: “Catherine De Wolf has developed a circular construction digital ecosystem for the connection of people, projects, and products for fostering building material reuse.”
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Find a short portrait on the external page MIT Technology Review’s list
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