Research Assistant

Elena Valter

e.valter@tu-berlin.de

Room 624
T + 49 – 30 – 314 – 21908
F + 49 – 30 – 314 – 21907

Curriculum Vitae

Elena Valter has been a research assistant at the Habitat Unit since October 2023. She is part of the Urban-Rural Assembly (BMBF, 2019-2024) research project, focusing on inclusive and sustainable approaches for urban-rural linkages.

She obtained her M.Sc. and B.Sc. in architecture from TU Berlin and addressed the appropriation and transformation of municipal vacant buildings into feminist, community based spaces of care in a group master’s thesis.

Elena also works as a research assistant at the Department of Cultural and Political Change (CPC) at the University of Bonn. Previously, she was part of the Natural Building Lab at TU Berlin, where she contributed to the research project Woodscraper (DBU) and worked at ZRS Architects and Engineers. Prior to her architecture studies, she obtained a B.Sc. in economics with a focus on geographical economics from the University of Cologne.