Thomas Spiegelhalter is a German-American academic.[1]

Early life and education

Born in Germany, Spiegelhalter earned both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts.[2]

Career

From 1990 to 1991, Spiegelhalter served as an assistant professor at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany, specializing in architecture, engineering, and town planning.[3] Following this, in 1993, he became a Tenured Full C3-Professor at the University of Applied Science Leipzig, a position established by the Minister of the State Saxony's Ministry of Science and Culture.[3]

In 1999, Spiegelhalter became a US-German-DAAD Visiting professor at the University of Houston's G. Hines College of Architecture.[3] He later joined Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh as a visiting professor, a position he held from 2000 to 2002.[3]

In 2000, Spiegelhalter was appointed a Tenured University C3-Professor at the University of Hannover in Germany, a designation from the Minister of the State Low-Saxony's department of Science and Culture.[3]

From 2000 to 2002, Spiegelhalter was a professor at the Mundaneum, Universidad del Desino in San Jose, Costa Rica, focusing on sustainability and design, as well as sustainability and environmental systems.[3]

From 2003 to 2009, Spiegelhalter served as a professor at the University of Southern California.[3][1]

In 2006, Spiegelhalter took on the role of Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor for Innovations in Sustainable and Renewable Energy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.[3]

In 2009, Spiegelhalter joined Florida International University as a professor of architecture.[3]

In 2017, Spiegelhalter received the European Union's Erasmus Plus Grant for research in sustainability design.[4] In the same year, Spiegelhalter co-established the Miami Dynamo-Rhynamo-BIM-360 group of the Intl. Autodesk User Groups (AUGI). Collaborating with universities internationally since 1990, Spiegelhalter has worked on various ecological engineering projects.[5]

Spiegelhalter currently holds a position at Florida International University (FIU) as a professor and the co-director of the Structures and Environmental Technologies Lab (SET).[6] He also teaches subjects related to sustainability and urban systems at FIU and Miami Beach Urban Studios (MBUS).[5]

Spiegelhalter is the founder of Thomas Spiegelhalter Studio + Associates and has been its head since 1990.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Nelson, Shane (August 31, 2003). "USC heats up for the Solar Decathlon". Los Angeles Times.
  2. ↑ "Thomas Spiegelhalter".
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 https://carta.fiu.edu/architecture/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/08/FIU-Thomas-Spiegelhalter-CV-19-July-2021.pdf
  4. ↑ Perez, Andrea (August 4, 2017). "Professor Thomas Spiegelhalter Awarded European Union's Erasmus Plus Grant to Conduct Sustainability Design Research".
  5. 1 2 3 "Thomas Spiegelhalter's profile". Facade Tectonics Institute. December 16, 2019.
  6. ↑ Communications, Florida International University-Digital. "Thomas Spiegelhalter". case.fiu.edu.
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