Sigrid Adriaenssens is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Her research goal is to transform the engineering approach to design through structural form for a sustainable and resilient built environment. Her current research interests are rigid, flexible and adaptive structural surface systems and the numerical approaches to generate (form finding), characterize (analyze) and optimize them. Her current scholarship includes shell and membrane structures under dynamic loading (earthquake and hydrodynamic loading) and adaptive flexible shells.