Hi! My name is Yana Boeva, PhD, and I am a Junior Research Group Leader at the Institute for Social Sciences and the Cluster of Excellence “Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Transformative Architecture (IntCDC),” at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. I am an interdisciplinary social scientist, drawing from Science & Technology Studies, sociology of knowledge and expertise, software studies, infrastructure studies, critical data studies, human-computer interaction (HCI), and design studies.

My current research interests include the critical studies of computation and digital infrastructures, the transformation of professional knowledge, epistemic cultures and practices of design and engineering cultures, and their sociocultural context. In my research group “Working with Computation: Reorganization of Knowledge Practices and Infrastructures,” I co-led a research project on the sociotechnical and organizational conditions for the implementation of computational methods in architectural design practice (2023–2025) as well as supervised an interdisciplinary research project on visualization approaches for design decision-making (2022–2025). I am also Co-PI of a new research project on human-AI-collaborations in review processes for environmental reporting (2026–2027).

My research has been published by Science as Culture, Science & Technology Studies, Digital Culture & Society, and several interdisciplinary journals. I have also co-edited an open access book “Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions and Politics” (Amsterdam University Press, 2024) on the changing knowledge regimes in datafied and digital societies. I have also co-edited special issues on critical computational relations in the built environment (2023), alternative DIY histories (2020), and hybrid and multidisciplinary pedagogical methods and concepts (2019). Currently, I am preparing a special issue on boundary concepts and datafication (forthcoming, 2027). I am also an associate editor for the journals Science & Technology Studies and Engineering Studies.

I am an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Technoscience and Society (ITS) at York University, Toronto. Previously, I have been visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki and the Institute of Technology in Architecture at the ETH Zurich.

I received my PhD in Science & Technology Studies from York University, Toronto, ON. I hold an MA in Media Studies from Humboldt-University Berlin and a diploma degree in Media and Information Design and Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany.

Somewhere below Kamui-mintara/Asahi-dake in Hokkaidō, Japan, June 2025.