Ekaterina is a computational urban designer at REHUB FORGE in Cologne, DE. She graduated as an Architect from USUAA, Yekaterinburg and a Master of Integrated Urban Development and Design from the Bauhaus University Weimar. She has previously worked at MVRDV Rotterdam in the urban design and business development departments. Her research interests include generative methods for design space exploration to inform environmentally aware and carbon-neutral urban design solutions. Her research works were published together with Bauhaus University Weimar and ETH Zürich Future Cities Laboratory Singapore at various conferences, including SimAUD, ISUF and CISBAT.