She has been selected for grants from the US EPA, as a part of the low carbon building materials grant program, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and Swiss national Science Foundation. Last year, she was an academic guest at he Circular Economy for Architecture Group at ETH Zürich and the Use Less Group at the University of Cambridge. Her design work was exhibited at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, and she often consults on steel reuse design projects.
She completed her Masters of Science in Building Technology in the Department of Architecture at MIT in 2023, and anticipates receiving her PhD in May of 2026 from the same program. Prior to MIT, she completed her Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering with a focus on Structures and Construction, and worked at the Chair for Industrialized and Innovative Construction at ETH Zurich. She has also held research oriented positions at BoKlok, a modular Swedish home building firm owned by Ikea and Skanska, and for the US Green Building Council.
Juliana Berglund-Brown (she/her) is a building technology researcher advised by Professor John Ochsendorf at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research explores circular strategies to mitigate carbon emissions and new resource extraction in structural systems. She is primarily interested in understanding building longevity, demolition patterns, and how to implement reuse into current construction practices.
