From 1990 to 1991, Spiegelhalter served as an assistant professor at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany, specializing in architecture, engineering, and town planning.[3] Following this, in 1993, he became a Tenured Full C3-Professor at the University of Applied Science Leipzig, a position established by the Minister of the State Saxony's Ministry of Science and Culture.[3]
In 1999, Spiegelhalter became a US-German-DAAD Visiting professor at the University of Houston's G. Hines College of Architecture.[3] He later joined Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh as a visiting professor at the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics, Intelligent Workplace, a position he held from 2000 to 2003.[3]
In 2000, Spiegelhalter was awarded a Tenured University C3-Professor at the University of Hannover in Germany, a designation from the Minister of the State Low-Saxony's department of Science and Culture.[3]
From 2000 to 2002, Spiegelhalter was a guest professor at the Mundaneum, Universidad del Desino in San Jose, Costa Rica, focusing on sustainability and design, as well as sustainability and environmental systems.[3]
In 2006, Spiegelhalter took on the role of Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor for Innovations in Sustainable and Renewable Energy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.[3]
In 2017, he received the European Union's Erasmus Plus Grant for research in sustainability design as a visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Genova in Italy.[4] In the same year, Spiegelhalter co-established the Miami Dynamo-Rhynamo-BIM-360 group of the Intl. Autodesk User Groups (AUGI). Collaborating with universities internationally since 1990, Spiegelhalter has worked on various ecological engineering projects.[5]
From April 2023 to April 2024, he was awarded the Global Visiting Professor Grant at the Research Center for Climate Change Adaptation, Faculty of Environmental Information Studies, ECOGIS Lab, while serving as a doctoral supervisor with Wanglin Yan at Keio University's Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Tokyo, Japan.
In April 2024, he was appointed to the Fulbright Specialist International Awardee Roster for Architecture, with a designation to work with an Italian university for the tenure period of 2024-2027.
Spiegelhalter is the founder of Thomas Spiegelhalter Studio + Associates and has been its head since 1990.[5]
Research work
Spiegelhalter's research work encompasses carbon-neutral designs, sustainable buildings, urban planning, and the rehabilitation of post-industrial environments, which includes engineered suspension and additive-manufactured, 3d printed bridges.[7]
On March 13, 1986, Spiegelhalter received the Intl. Schinkel Prize for Kunst und Bauen (Art and Building) by the Jury of AIV Berlin-Brandenburg awarding his Berlin Märkisches Viertel district masterplan redevelopment proposal. Following the Karl Friedrich Schinkel award ceremony, he was interviewed and broadcast on the German ZDF heute-journal television.
From June 19 to September 6, 1999, Spiegelhalter's Solar Architecture was exhibited as part of the US Traveling Exhibition Project "UNDER THE SUN - An outdoor exhibition of light." The exhibition events occurred at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in Washington, D.C., and at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan, New York. Spiegelhalter was joined by other contributors such as Thomas Herzog, BEAR Architekten/Tjerk Rejjenga/Gouda, Solar design Associates, Inc., Stephen Strong, Kiss+Cathart Architects, BP Solar Inc. Engineers, and Buero Happold.
In September 2023, he hosted a discussion at the College of Architecture at Florida International University on “AI in the Built Environment & Health” with Sir Prof. Dr. David Spiegelhalter. The event delved into the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and AI in architecture, design, and urban planning, offering attendees insights into future AI trends and impacts across disciplines.
On June 1, 2024, the CBS News TV network aired a segment on Spiegelhalter's research. The segment focused on his use of generative artificial intelligence with students to design bioinspired cities for the future in Miami. The designs included carbon-neutral scenario concepts for hurricane-resilient floating and stilt buildings and green-blue infrastructures, with projections extending to 2100. [8]
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