Dr. Yael Borofsky
Dr. Yael Borofsky
Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
ETH Zürich
Raumentwicklung und Stadtpolitik
Yael Borofsky is post-doctoral research scientist at SPUR working on a SNIS-funded project in collaboration with Stellenbosch University. 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 was an Early-Career Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum from 2023-2024, is a co-founder of the ETH Zurich Energy Blog, and is a founding member of the external page LightUp Collective. 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.
