Olga is Assistant Professor at AET, Chair of Building Innovation and co-leader of the Circular Built Environment (CBE) Hub of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft. Her current research focuses on circular products and processes with an emphasis on the design of bio-based circular building products and the creation of bio-based value networks. She is particularly interested in the systemic character of circularity and how it challenges the established processes for the production of the built environment, stakeholder relations and societal values towards a circular society.

With a strong research background on architectural engineering education, Olga has developed and is currently coordinating several educational initiatives with the aim of integrating circularity in BK curricula: Circularity for Educators and Educators for Circularity She is also currently coordinating the Circular Design Atlas. 

Olga Ioannou studied Architecture at the “Sapienza” University of Rome and received her diploma in Architecture from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2002). She earned a postgraduate degree from the Postgraduate Programme “Architecture - Space -Design” of the National Technical University of Athens (2012). She acquired her PhD at NTUA (2019) where she also lectured as a teaching assistant from 2014 to 2019. She developed a number of blended modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She also taught several Building Technology courses at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Thessaly in Volos, and at the Postgraduate Program of the University of Portsmouth's branch in Athens where she was Unit Leader of TECHNE. 

• TH Building construction
• circular society
• biogenic materials
• circular building products
• circular education