Their range of disciplines showcases the breadth of research and scholarship across the School

Five faculty in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning have been recognized with tenure for their significant contributions to the School, effective July 1, 2022. 

Fadel Adib, whose work focuses on wireless technology, has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences. His research is focused on three interconnected themes: sensing inside the human body by investigating the attenuation of radio frequency signals inside living tissue; developing new techniques for wireless communication in underwater environments; and investigating two-frequency excitation systems that improve localization and sensing accuracy. Adib is the founding director of the Signal Kinetics Group in the MIT Media Lab, which develops new sensor technologies for health, computing, and climate.

Gabriella Carolini has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Carolini’s focus is on urban planning and international development. She is director of the City Infrastructure Equity Lab; her research and teaching are centered on providing a grounded critical analysis of how the governance of infrastructure development—including its financial architecture, implementation, and especially evaluation—shapes the distributional, procedural, and epistemic fairness of infrastructure project benefits and the health of urban communities across the Americas and Africa.

Miho Mazereeuw, director of the Urban Risk Lab, has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Architecture. She is known for her work in disaster resilience. An architect and a landscape architect, Mazereeuw works on a large, territorial scale with an interest in public spaces and the urban experience.

Caitlin Mueller, a researcher, designer, and educator working at the interface of architecture and structural engineering, has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Architecture. Mueller leads the Digital Structures research group, which focuses on synthetic integration of creative and technical goals in the design and fabrication of buildings, bridges, and other large-scale structures.

Justin Steil has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Steil is a lawyer and urban planner; his scholarship untangles how the structure of local governance and land use law interacts with housing policies to shape the spatial structure of our social world in ways that produce economic and racial inequality.  He also analyzes how zoning and housing policies can be redesigned to increase equality of access to resources and advance racial justice.