She joined the Board of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction in 2015 and was a member of the Academic Committee of the Holcim Foundation (2019-22) and Head of the Academic Committee (2020-22). She was a member of all regional Holcim Foundation Awards 2020 juries, the Global Holcim Foundation Awards 2021 jury, and the Holcim Foundation Awards 2023 jury for Europe.

She participated in the 3rd Holcim Roundtable 2018 on “Re-materializing Construction”, moderated the Holcim Foundation Awards Lab 2015 workshop on medium scale projects in New York City, the Holcim Foundation Awards Lab 2018 on the architectural/building scale in Mexico City (2018) and on Shifting the flows, pulling the strings: Stocks, flows, and their dynamics at the 6th Holcim Forum 2019.

Marilyne Andersen was Dean of the School of Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engineering – ENAC (2013-18) and is the Academic Director of the Smart Living Lab in Fribourg, Switzerland. Before joining EPFL, she was Assistant, and then Associate Professor tenure-track in the Building Technology Group of the School of Architecture & Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, and Head of the MIT Daylighting Lab that she founded in 2004.

She holds a Master of Science in Physics and specialized in daylighting through her PhD in Building Physics at EPFL in the Solar Energy & Building Physics Laboratory, and as a Visiting Scholar in the Building Technologies Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA, USA.

Her research activities at LIPID focus on the integration of building performance in design with an emphasis on daylighting around the themes of health, perception, comfort, and energy. She is co-founder of the EPFL start-up OCULIGHT dynamics, providing specialized consulting services regarding human-centric daylighting.

Marilyne Andersen is the author of over 150 refereed scientific papers, several of which have received distinctions. She was the first laureate of the Award for Daylight Research of the Villum & Velux Foundations (2016) for combining research with practice and focusing on the impact of daylighting on the health, wellbeing, and experience of building users. She chaired the Jury of the Daylight Award (2018).

She was the leader and faculty advisor of the Swiss Team and its solar housing NeighborHub project, that won the US Solar Decathlon (2017) competition with eight podiums out of ten contests. She is an expert to the Innovation Council of InnoSuisse, founding member of the Daylight Academy and founding member as well as Board member of the Foundation Culture du Bâti (CUB). She also was a Visiting Professor in Architecture & Sustainable Design (ASD) at the Singapore University of Technology & Design in 2019.