Elena Boerman
M.Sc of Architecture, KIT, Karlsruhe, 2021
Contact: elena.boerman@kit.edu
Teaching Assistant and Researcher at the Chair of Sustainable Construction KIT Karlsruhe 2021 – present / Student Assistant at the Chair of Sustainable Construction KIT Karlsruhe 2020-2021 / M.Sc. Architecture, KIT, Karlsruhe 2018-2021 / AAg LoebnerSchäferWeber Freie Architekten BDA, Heidelberg, 2018-2021 / Schenk & Fleischhaker Architekten, Hamburg, 2017-2018 / B.Sc. Architecture, KIT, Karlsruhe, 2014-2017
Elena Boerman is a research assistant in teaching and research at the Chair of Sustainable Construction at the Department of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). She holds a Master and Bachelor of Science in Architecture from KIT.
In her master’s thesis, she dealt with the urban spaces and architectures of post-war modernism and their contemporary and sustainable transformation. For her master’s thesis with the title „The Value of an Architecture of Permanence – The Climate and Resource Appropriate Transformation of the Architectural Heritage of Post War Modernism“ she won recognition of the Friedrich-Weinbrenner-Prize 2021.
Since 2023, she has been pursuing her doctorate at KIT on the topic of determining and targeting greenhouse gas emissions as a control instrument for the circular economy in construction.
She is editor of the book ‘Building with Renewable Materials – Nature as a Raw Material Source’ (Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, 2024, with Dirk E. Hebel and Sandra Böhm). Together with Sandra Böhm, she is responsible for the materials library of the Department of Architecture and is involved in design courses and seminars for architecture students focusing on circular construction and the use and reuse of innovative and future-oriented building materials.
