Mathias Bernhard
Senior Scientist at Digital Building Technologies, ETH Zurich
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMathias Bernhard is a Senior Scientist and postdoctoral-trained architect specializing in computational design, digital fabrication, and the machine-readable encoding of cultural artefacts. With over a decade of research and teaching experience at ETH Zurich, EPFL and related labs, he develops computational design libraries and curricula that bridge architecture, computer science, and additive manufacturing. His doctoral work mapped alternative abstraction models in CAD and explores how AI, machine learning, and evolutionary strategies reshape design workflows and material practice. He has led interdisciplinary projects at multiple scales, published in peer-reviewed venues, and exhibited work internationally, demonstrating both theoretical depth and practical fabrication expertise. Based in Lausanne, he uniquely combines architectural pedagogy with hands-on development of digital fabrication tooling and programmatic design systems. A less obvious strength is his sustained focus on making cultural artefacts digitally operational—turning tacit, historical knowledge into formal, machine-usable representations.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Architecture, Bachelor’s Degree, Architecture at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneDoctor of Science, Architecture, Doctor of Science, Architecture at ETH Zürich
English, German, French, Romanian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (69)
structures10
grasshopper10
aec10
rhino10
polyhedra10
compas10
geometry10
rhino3d10
placement10
blender10
topology10
mesh9
pure-python9
rpc9
printing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dbt-ethz/Axolotl
Feb 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:98 commits, 90 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
dbt-ethz/compas_vol_old
May 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 159 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 1 month
function-representationconstructive-solid-geometrysigned-distance-functionsvolumetric-modelling
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