Work experience

04/2011 - 02/2012: Coach at HPI School of Design Thinking, Potsdam, Germany

10/2007 - 11/2008: User Interface Designer at SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany

07/2007 - 09/2007: Webdeveloper at GBF, Aachen, Germany

05/2006 - 06/2007: Student worker (developing database UI) at PSP Technologies, Aachen, Germany

11/2005 - 03/2006: Internship at Servipublic S.L. (PR, marketing), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

11/2004 - 09/2005: Student worker at Center of Innovative Learning Technologies (CiL) at RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Voluntary work

since 04/2004: maintenance and editorial work of the NdF website (volunteering organization); preparing volunteers for projects in Latin America and Asia 

since 01/2012: computer courses for pupils within the Hürdenspringer program

10/2002 - 10/2006: Organisation of events, moderation, editorial work at the campus radio of RWTH Aachen University, Germany

10/2003 - 03/2004: Teaching at a primary school, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Education

since 11/2008: PhD in Computer Science at Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany within the HPI – Stanford Design Thinking Research Program, project Tele-Board

10/2001 – 02/2007: Bachelor and Masters degree in “Technical Communication” (Communication and Computer Science) at RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Languages

German: mother tongue

English: fluent

Spanish: fluent

Portuguese: fair

French: fair