Christina Doumpioti is PhD Candidate at the Royal College of Art. Her research is focused on passive adaptation and dynamic response of architectural interfaces through the utilisation of composite and responsive materials. She is currently Technical Studies lecturer and tutor at the Architecture Association and Studio Tutor at the University of Brighton. Since 2011 she is a member at the Ocean Design Research Association a transdisciplinary design research team.
She studied architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is a registered architect in Greece. She earned her MArch with Distinction in Emergent Technologies and Design, and followed this with a postgraduate course on Computing and Design at UEL. Prior to her academic employment, Christina worked as an architectural assistant and computational consultant at Arup, London.