Manuela Triggianese is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture. She is research coordinator of the Section Building Knowledge and master coordinator for the Group of Complex Projects. Graduated cum laude in Italy, she is trained as architect. In 2012 she moves to the Netherlands and starts working at the architectural firm KAAN Architecten. In 2014 she obtains the doctoral degree at the Faculty of Architecture in Venice (IUAV), participating to the international doctoral research program Villard d’Honnecout. This is a collaboration between Delft University of Technology, IUAV, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid and École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville. In 2015 she works at the Beijing Technical University as  Marie Curie research fellow in the program ‘Urban Knowledge Network Asia'. From 2016 to 2018 she is postdoctoral researcher at Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and lecturer at TU Delft. Her main education and research themes relate to the architecture of mobility (stations), being a major driver of urban development. Her focus is on the integrated approach of design and its role in the development of complex projects where multiple stakeholders, disciplines and data are involved. 

She contributes to the research of the Department of Architecture and to the transdisciplinary program DIMI - Future (proof) Built Environment. She is the author of (international) publications and member of scientific research committees. She speaks fluently Italian, English, French and Spanish.