Ruochen Zheng received her Master’s degree in Architecture from RWTH Aachen University. Since 2024, she has been pursuing her PhD at the Department of Architecture, Institute of Architectural and Art History at Technical University of Darmstadt, and since 2025 she has been an associate doctoral researcher in the DFG Research Training Group Organizing Architectures. Her research interests include architectural history, colonial history, and transcultural exchange processes between Europe and East Asia. She focuses in particular on questions of how architectural cultures were translated and adapted in colonial contexts, with comparative perspectives in a global framework.
E-Mail: ruochen.zheng@stud.tu-darmstadt.de