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Ornella is Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (IT), and Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds (UK). Formerly, she was Full Professor and Chair of Architecture and Structures (AS) at the University of Leeds. Before joining Leeds, Prof Iuorio developed her carrier at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Naples Federico II (IT).

Her passion is in the transformation of the construction sector, through modern methods from prefabrication to robotics, to deliver low-carbon, reversible, highly efficient dry construction systems. She founded and led the AS|Lab since 2015 and has been recognized as one the “Top 50 Women in Engineering: Invertors & Innovators” by the Guardian in 2022 for the development of innovative lightweight and resilient steel construction systems with high structural performance and low embodied carbon, that are finding large application in mass-manufacturing.