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Berlin, Germany

Berlin Area, Germany

Berlin Area, Germany

In my role at CIID, I led the design-driven research activities within the research unit of CIID on the large EU-funded project PELARS. In particular, I have been responsible for leading user research and iterative prototyping on topics such as connected tools and analytics for the future hands-on STEM learning environments. In addition, I have led the overall coordination of a multi-national partnership including industry, academia and non-profit organisations.

Berlin Area, Germany

As a visiting interaction design researcher in the Mobile and Physical Interaction Group, I have acted as a project lead for the project MyPosition, which explored novel concepts of interactive polling that can enable engaging, low-barrier civic participation through situated, embodied interaction and data visualization. In this role, I have been leading the conceptualisation, planning, conduct and reporting on design research-, and interaction design activities. I have also collaborated on other projects on mid-air gestural interaction.

Barcelona Area, Spain

In charge of conducting state-funded research on the application of citizen-driven data visualization, in the domains of sustainability, health and well-being as well as social and civic participation. Project lead on five pilots within the topic, covering the full process from benchmarking, ethnographic research, through iterative design, in-situ evaluation and impact analysis. My design cases within this period have been exhibited in several public and exhibition venues and the research thereof has been reported in high-impact academic publications.

Barcelona Area, Spain

As associate faculty, I co-designed and conducted several studio-based courses aimed to transmit interdisciplinary skills in creativity, interaction design and new media for computer engineering students. The course 'Designing Interactive Systems' focused on creative developments in interactive visualization, by experimenting on the intersection between information aesthetics, information art, ubiquitous computing and multimodal user interaction. The course 'Audiovisual Language and Interactive Narrative' explored the traditional principles of audiovisual language as well as the new means of expression and communication emerging from various technological developments.

Barcelona Area, Spain

As visiting faculty at ELISAVA, I conceptualised and taught the course ‘Information and Design’ focusing on the fundamentals of visual thinking in terms of perception and cognition and how principles derived from those can be applied in the practice of information design.

Córdoba Province, Argentina

As invited faculty for the on-line course module on Interactive Media, I conceptualised and taught the course ‘Methods and Concepts in Interaction Design’ offering an in-depth view on essential methodologies and approaches in interaction design. The concepts were applied practically in a course-long project on ‘Self-Logging’.

Barcelona Area, Spain

As part of the Interaction Group, I collaborated on industry-academia projects that explored cutting-edge technologies and designs for professional media production domains, such as television and interactive film production.

Barcelona Area, Spain

In this role I was responsible for the creative design and development of Mixed and Virtual Reality installations for neuroscience and psychology research on smart and responsive interactive environments.

Linz

As a creative engineer in the Futurelab team, I collaborated on design and development of diverse large cutting-edge innovation projects within the topics of Virtual and Mixed Reality, Visualization, Interactive desktop-, tablet and gestural interfaces for clients such as Vodafone, SAP, WDR, etc.

Darmstadt Area, Germany

As a student researcher, I worked on applications in the E-commerce domain: the design of multi-modal interaction for disabled people, virtual reality for retail and interior design, etc. I was a student project lead on a design research project on interactive hyper video for smart mobile devices (Europrix award-winning in category Design Master Thesis)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design

Master Class, Future Casting (Foresight And Speculative Design) - Certified

This course is about how to map out the possible futures of technology. It teaches practical skills and methods in strategic.

Master Class, Designing Impactful Digital Experiences - Certified

This course is for designers, and other professionals who want to define a new generation of digital experiences, and bring new.

Master'S Degree, Mathematics And Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Graphics

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics And Computer Science

High-School Degree, Languages, Mathematics

High-school degree with majors in English language and Mathematics.

Master Class, Designing Ethical Futures (Certified)