Marirena Kladeftira is a PhD researcher at the chair of Digital Building Technologies (dbt), Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA) of ETH Zurich, where she leads the research on additive-manufactured complex joints for bespoke lightweight structures.

She received her Diploma in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. She also studied architecture in ENSA Paris Val de Seine and ETH Zürich, where she completed postgraduate studies in Digital Fabrication. Before joining ETHZ she was a visiting researcher at the Transformable Intelligent Environments Laboratory of TUC.