Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos
Associate Professor for Civil and Architectural Engineering,
Associate Director for Climate Resilience Institute
Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos specializes in structural morphology and morphogenesis, using these concepts to design more sustainable and resilient structures. His research spans a variety of structural and architectural systems, including tensegrity and hexagonal lattice structures, with applications ranging from infrastructure and space structures to marine and coastal protection.
Rhode-Barbarigos has been leading the research and development of SEAHIVE®, a shoreline protection system that has since been deployed off the coast of Miami Beach and an inlet in Pompano Beach. His work on green/gray protective structures is particularly relevant to South Florida and coastal communities worldwide. The pilot installations have attracted significant media attention.
Rhode-Barbarigos' research has been supported by grants from the Transportation Research Board, National Science Foundation, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and others. He has been recognized with prestigious honors, including the NSF CAREER award and the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida's Rising Stars award. He currently serves on two American Society of Civil Engineers committees: the Aerospace Division’s Space Engineering and Construction Committee, and the Esthetics in Design Committee.
He has been a professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Miami since 2015. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Form Finding Lab at Princeton University from 2012 to 2014. He earned his Ph.D. in 2012 from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.
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