Katharina Boudier is a researcher at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany, at the department of civil engineering and Chair of Built Environment. Her main field of research is thermal comfort and building simulation. She started her scientific career in 2015 as a PhD student at the department, and in 2021 she finished her PhD dissertation with the title: "Modellierung der Interaktion zwischen Gebäudenutzer*innen und Gebäudetechnik – Potenzialanalyse dezentraler Heiz- und Kühlsysteme hinsichtlich der thermischen Behaglichkeit und des Energieverbrauchs auf Basis einen adaptiven Gebäudereglers." Before her PhD, she completed her studies in civil engineering at the University of Applied Sciences of Saarland in Germany, Department of Civil Engineering---Structural Engineering. She is a member of IBPSA and spent several months at universities in Brazil and Australia where she collaborated with researchers on building energy performance simulations.