Lidia Atanasova is a postdoctoral researcher at the Professorship of Digital Fabrication, Department of Architecture, Technical University of Munich. An architect by training, she works across computational design and digital fabrication to advance human–robot collaboration in building construction — pairing human judgment and dexterity with the spatial precision of robotic systems. She completed her doctoral dissertation, “Building (with) Human-Robot Teams” with distinction in 2025, developed within the TUM Innovation Network “CoConstruct.” This research introduced fabrication-aware design methods and adaptive workflows for AR-guided human-robot cooperative assembly. In 2024 she was a visiting researcher at XAIA lab, Princeton School of Architecture, working on Augmented TimberCraft and AR Timber Assembly. She has taught design studios and seminars on computational design and digital fabrication at TUM since 2019 and co-led international workshops. Her current research explores how machine intelligence can carry craft knowledge into robotic making.
