Eleonora Philopoulos is the Director of Architecture and Design in Facilities Management at Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Philopoulos has been working at the university for seventeen years, and leads architecture and interior design for all campus projects ranging from small to large complex projects. Philopoulos additionally leads an annual building interior condition analysis audit and provides strategic direction for deferred maintenance projects yearly. Prior to her WMU experience, Philopoulos worked in Europe as an Interior Architect for retail companies like Nike and Harley Davidson and has won several national design awards over her career.
Academically, in addition to her role as the Director of Architecture and Design, Philopoulos is a doctoral student in the higher education leadership program at WMU with her dissertation topic focusing on campus environments and sense of belonging. Additionally, Philopoulos is a part-time instructor at WMU teaching in the Interior Architecture program for sixteen years. Philopoulos is fluent in Greek and serves as the Faculty Director for the study abroad course to Greece for Architecture and Design at WMU for the past eight years.
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