Dr. Yael Borofsky
Dr. Yael Borofsky
Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
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Yael Borofsky is an Early-Career Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum and a post-doctoral affiliate researcher at the Development Economics Group. Her research focuses on access to electricity and other basic infrastructure in underserved areas, particularly informal settlements. Working with partners across and outside academia, her projects focus on building novel datasets to study infrastructure access in data-scarce settings. Yael is a co-founder of the ETH Zurich Energy Blog and a founding member of the external pageLightUp Collectivecall_made. Yael received her PhD from ETH Zurich in 2022 and has a dual masters' in City Planning as well as Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.