Lidia Atanasova, Dr.-Ing. 

Lidia Atanasova is an architect and researcher in computational design and robotic fabrication. Her research focuses on human–robot collaboration in architectural construction. She studied at TU Wien, where she received her master's degree in architecture, and at ITECH (Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research) at the University of Stuttgart as a visiting student. She gained professional experience as a project assistant at the Institute of Art and Design at TU Wien and through internships at offices in Vienna and Stuttgart.

In 2019, she joined the Digital Fabrication research group as a scientific researcher, where she taught and conducted her doctoral research on Human-Robot Cooperative Assembly. Her dissertation, "Building (with) Human-Robot Teams: Enabling Cooperative Assembly Processes for Building Construction," completed at the Technical University of Munich in 2025 as part of the TUM Innovation Network “CoConstruct”, introduced fabrication-aware design methods and adaptive workflows for architectural construction - where human judgment and craft work alongside robotic precision in cooperative assembly.

She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Professorship of Digital Fabrication at the Technical University of Munich, where she continues her research at the intersection of AI, robotics, and architecture, exploring how robots can perform more material-aware, adaptive fabrication processes.