DFAB Alumna appointed Assistant Professor at Cambridge

NCCR DFAB alumna Yu Zhang will start as Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design at the University of Cambridge, UK, in the Department of Architecture on 1 December 2024. Yu was a postdoctoral researcher at the Engineering Design and Computing Laboratory in Professor Kristina Shea's group at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering.

Her postdoctoral research focuses on Fabrication-Aware Design and Optimization for Discrete Architectural Assemblies. She obtained her doctoral degree from ETH Zurich and was a researcher within the NCCR Digital Fabrication in the year 2023.

Yu Zhang’s research interest lies in developing sustainable, (re)generative structures in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry through digital technologies.