Athina Lazaridou is a professionally qualified and highly experienced architect, researcher and consultant with extensive knowledge and skills in Architectural Design, Museums, Spatial Analysis and Virtual Reality gained in a wide range of architectural, academic and consultancy sectors. She holds a Bachelor in Architecture from the Aristotle University Thessaloniki (AUTH) in Greece, a Master (MSc) in Architectural Advanced Studies from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies (UCL) and a Ph.D. in Architectural Space and Computation from the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), London, UK. She has won numerous scholarships and awards among which an AHRC Collaborative Skills Development Grant, as a CLASH Fellow in collaboration with UCL, King’s Cultural Institute and the Royal Festival Hall in London, a Ph.D. Scholarship by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y), an Erasmus-Socrates Funding for studies at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany and many research project and conference funds by UCL.

She has worked as part of the ‘Somer’s Town Cycle to School’ research project in collaboration with UCL and the Camden Council, London (2014-15). During 2011-14, she organised and led numerous design workshops in Greece together with the Department of Urban and Spatial Planning, AUTH and Gehl Architects. Earlier, she worked as a consultant for Space Syntax Limited in London (2007-09). At the same time, she was a Member of the Management Committee for COST Action TU1002 (2007-09).

Athina is a licensed architect (ARB, TEE-TCG), an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UCL Arena One, UK and a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA) at the Bartlett, UCL. Fluent english, german, spanish and greek speaker.