Fiona Zisch studied architecture at the University of Innsbruck, Austria and Lunds Tekniska Hogskola, Sweden. After a brief excursion first into the world of design for outer space at NASA and then into film architecture and production design, Fiona practiced as an architect, working in offices in Vienna and London. She was also active as a freelance architectural writer in Vienna and Innsbruck, before taking up a lectureship at studio2 at the University of Innsbruck (2010-), as well as, previously, part-time lectureships at the University of Plymouth, The University of Westminster, and Greenwich University. She has been at UCL as a member of staff since 2015.

She is Programme Director on the Bartlett School of Architecture’s MArch Design for Performance and Interaction where she also teaches design and leads the programme’s Contextual Theory strand. She is a collaborator in the research group Spierslab, leads research in the BodyLab, and, together with Michael Wagner, oversees BartlettTV.

Together with Prof. Hugo Spiers, Fiona is Co-Chair of the UK chapter of ANFA (Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture).

Fiona gained her PhD at UCL at the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Gage and Prof. Hugo Spiers.