Antía Fernández

Antía is an architect with expertise in designing strategies and developing digital solutions for the built environment. After training at ETSAM-UPM and FAU-UFRJ, she practised in studios in Madrid and Rio de Janeiro before joining Arup. She graduated as Valedictorian from the Executive Master in Digital Twins for Cities and Infrastructures (UPM, ENPC, BME), with an AI predictive model on the mobility impact of mass events in Madrid.

Her practice covers digital twins, AI knowledge systems and ontologies, and advising public agencies and private clients on digital transformation across infrastructure lifecycle, territorial resilience, sustainable urban growth, and mobility planning. At Arup, her projects include data and AI advisory, digital twin platforms and process automation for Madrid City Council, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (vCity, ASCENDER), EU ESPON, Adif, AENA, EMT, and the UK-FCDO Global Future Cities Programme, among a range of private clients. She has been invited as a guest lecturer at multiple institutions, including BSC-CNS, The Alan Turing Institute, ETSICCP-UPM, and ITÜ.

At MIAWS she serves as Module Coordinator for F1 (Fundamentals — the methodological, conceptual, and tooling foundation of AI practice in architecture) and teaches in Module F7 (AI Documentation — AI-automated documentation, specifications, compliance checking, and project knowledge bases).