David Andrés León is a private consultant for digital technologies for the AEC industry with particular focus on web development and user interfaces for AI. His goal is to empower designers with digital tools to leverage the design process. He is also currently Director of the Master of Advanced Computation for Architecture and Design (MaCAD) at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya (IAAC), and a member of the faculty of the Norman Foster Foundation and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He has been involved in various research collaborations and co-authored numerous publications in the field of architectural research.

David holds a Master of Science Degree from the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) in Universitat Stuttgart and a Masters Degree in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture from the Escola Superior de Disseny i Enginyeria de Barcelona (Elisava). He has been involved in several research undertakings of which stand out his participation in German research platform FAT-LAB in Stuttgart and his collaboration as a research assistant in the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) for the EU-Horizon 2020 Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive Action project Flora Robotica. David is also the co-author of various publications in the field of architectural research and robotics.

Sophie is a senior applications developer at Thornton Tomasetti | CORE Studio where she develops tools to automate engineering and design workflows. With a background in structural and facade engineering, she brings practical expertise to her role. 

Emil Poulsen is the co-founder of Modelup, a company building web-based 3D apps and configurators powered by Rhino and Grasshopper. With a background in architecture, engineering, and software development, Emil has extensive experience working with Grasshopper and developing custom tools that run Grasshopper server-side to connect computational design with modern web technologies.

Lucas Wiener is a software engineer and co-founder of Modelup, where he focuses on the full web stack behind 3D apps and configurators powered by Rhino and Grasshopper. With a strong background in system architecture, UI, UX, frontend, and backend development, Lucas specializes in creating intuitive, high-performance tools tailored for the AEC industry.

Oriol Carrasco is Professor at IAAC in the Design With Nature research line (since 2013), Senior Faculty in IAAC 3DPA and Professor in Computational Design at UIC's School of Architecture (since 2016). He has extensive previous teaching experience at EsArq UIC, Elisava and UEM Valencia, where he has been sharing his computation and fabrication expertise. He studied architecture at the EsArq UIC (honors) and received his Masters degree at Elisava. He has a Ph.D (excellent Cum Laude) in architecture and engineering, with the thesis entlitled 'Proposal for an additive manufacturing method using advanced polymer composites for architectural applications'.

Has been combining teaching and working in the engineering and architectural fields since 2005, collaborating with different studios and companies, developing projects in Europe and South America where getting involved in computational design, prototyping and real scale mock-ups, fabrication methods and construction phases. Founded in 2015 Architechnoid, an architecture firm that provides consulting services in the intersection of architecture, design and technology with contemporary means of production and fabrication. Since 2017, he works almost exclusively as part of the production engineering team that develops Basilica Sagrada Familia.

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