Personal profile
Curriculum vitae
My research focusses on novel opportunities for architectural design that emerge when digital information flows across traditional domain boundaries. My PhD research developed digital methods to support interdependent working across engineering and architectural domains. In my PostDoc I explored the idea that new materials such as composites necessitate new relationships between material and representation, and developed new methods for extending architectural design into material property specification. As an Associate Professor, my research has focussed on architectural robotics, machine learning and sensing, and opportunities to extend processes of design into processes of making through feedback, adaptation, and the transfer of new modelling methods.
Research area
- Technology and digital design
- Robotics
- Machine learning
- 3d Printing
- Feedback
- Sensing
- Architecture
- Digital design
- Materials
- Composite Materials
- Incremental Sheet Forming
- Bio-materials
Projects
- 8 Finished
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Performance-based additive manufacturing processes in architectural design practice
Heywood, K. (PI), Nicholas, P. (Main supervisor (industrial PhD)), Dam Madsen, T. (industrial supervisor (industrial PhD)) & Strømann-Andersen, J. (industrial supervisor (industrial PhD))
01/03/2022 → 27/06/2025
Project: PhD project
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Designing dynamic responsive architectural systems
Nicholas, P. (Project Participant)
05/10/2015 → 30/03/2016
Project: Other
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Complex Modelling
Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. (Project Participant), Tamke, M. (Project Participant), Ayres, P. (Project Participant), Nicholas, P. (Project Participant), Stasiuk, D. (Project Participant), Holden Deleuran, A. (Project Participant), Pauly, M. (Project Participant) & Gengnagel, C. (Project Participant)
01/09/2013 → 31/08/2017
Project: Research
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What does it mean to make an experiment?
Tamke, M. (Project Manager, academic), Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. (Project Participant), Johansson, T. D. (Project Manager, academic), Hansen, F. T. (Project Participant), Nicholas, P. (Project Participant), Binder, T. (Project Participant) & Mossé, A. (Project Participant)
01/06/2012 → 31/12/2013
Project: Research
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Design-to-Fabrication Workflows for Large-Scale Continuous FDM Grading of Biopolymer Composites
Nicholas, P., Rossi, G., Eppinger, C., Nelson, C., Sonne, K., Akbari, S., Tamke, M., Huls, J., O’Connor, R., Waschek, M. & Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Feb 2026, In: Applied Sciences. 16, 3, 19 p., 1569.Publications: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Additive manufacturing for Repair: continual construction through biobased materials
Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Nicholas, P., Chiujdea, R.-S., Dalager Nielsen, S. & Eppinger, C., 2025, In: 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing. 12, 2Publications: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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A Decision-Making Tree for Adapting the Additive Manufacturing Repair Repertoire for Biopolymer Composite Materials
Chiujdea, R.-S., Nicholas, P., Tamke, M., Ichniowski, C.-N., Eppinger, C., Sonne, K., Akbari, S. & Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., 2025, In: TAD - Technology | Architecture + Design. 9, 2, p. 454-467 14 p.Publications: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Biogenic Building
Nicholas, P. (Producer), Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. (Producer) & Ichniowski, C.-N. (Producer), 2025Publications: Non-textual form › Exhibition › Communication
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Experimenting Bioprinting for Wood Waste Upcycling in Architecture and Design Preliminary Assessments and Application Scenarios
Saeli, M., Galluccio, G., Leone, R., Nicholas, P. & Tamke, M., 2025, Envisioning the Futures: Designing and Building for People and the Environment. (Colloqui.AT.e 2025). R., A., M., D., M.P., G., G., M. & S., T. (eds.). p. 766-789 24 p. (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering; No. 766).Publications: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
Prizes
Activities
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The RAW-CITA Timber Workshop
Adelzadeh, A. (Participant), Tamke, M. (Organizer), Nicholas, P. (Organizer), Gaudillière-Jami, N. (Organizer) & Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. (Organizer)
15 Sept 2025 → 26 Sept 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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A Circular Material Practice
Nicholas, P. (Lecturer)
2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
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Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation (Organisational unit)
Nicholas, P. (Member)
Jan 2024 → Dec 2025Activity: Membership › Membership in research network
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University College London, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment (External organisation)
Nicholas, P. (Member)
2024 → 2027Activity: Membership › Membership in review committee
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AI for design and digital fabrication
Nicholas, P. (Lecturer)
11 Apr 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution