Nefeli Manoudaki is an architect-engineer and a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) program. Previously, she served as a researcher at the TUC TIE Lab in Greece, where she contributed to large-scale, nationally recognized projects. Her work sits at the convergence of nature, human sensory experience, and design, leveraging emerging technologies to craft immersive environments and interactive installations. Her research spans artificial intelligence, immersive environments, and biological architectural forms in both tangible and digital realms (including VR, AR, XR, and AI/ML). By drawing on morphological and cognitive principles, Nefeli aims to create transformative experiences that reconnect users with traces of the natural world. Recent works emphasize digital morphogenesis through emotions within XR and olfactory stimuli. Her projects have been showcased at prestigious international events such as ACM SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, MIT Reality Hack, and more.