Mariana Popescu, computational architect, and structural designer to give a lecture at the Computational Design: NEXT 6.0 conference. Mariana has a strong interest and experience in innovative ways of approaching the fabrication process and use of materials in construction. Dr. Mariana Popescu is a post-doctoral researcher at the Block Research Group (BRG) at the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH Zurich, involved in the NCCR Digital Fabrication. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Parametric Structural Design and Digital Fabrication at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of TU Delft in the Netherlands. Her area of expertise is computational and parametric design with a focus on digital fabrication and sustainable design. Her extensive involvement in projects related to promoting sustainability has led to a multilateral development of skills, which combine the fields of architecture, engineering, computational design, and digital fabrication. In 2019, she successfully defended her Ph.D., which was nominated for the ETH Medal for outstanding dissertation, and was named a “Pioneer” on the MIT Technology review the global list of “35 innovators under 35”.