Andressa Martinez is an architect and professor at the Federal University of Viçosa (DAU-UFV), Brazil, teaching in undergraduate and graduate levels (Msc in Architecture). Since 2015 she has been the Director of the Digital Manufacturing Research Laboratory (Nó.Lab). The major focus of her research is digital design processes and fabrication. She has taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro a series of Design Studios and courses in Digital Modeling (2009, 2012-2013). In 2007, Andressa was selected for an academic exchange at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, with a scholarship offered by European Union. In 2005, she won an Honorable Mention in the Tomorrow Architect Competition (IAB-RJ). She also won a Second Place in the House 1.0 award (2003), a competition for social housing projects, promoted by ABCP in Brazil. Andressa holds a BS in Architecture and Urbanism and a MSc and DSc in Urbanism from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.