High-tech Entrepreneurship

Caroline Szymanski

PhD, Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Berlin School of Mind and Brain

Faculty Profile

Caroline Szymanski is a Design Thinking coach and innovation consultant with a focus on teamwork. Also, she’s a cognitive neuroscientist at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Max Planck Institute of Human Development with a focus on neuro-teamwork.

Caroline has been teaching Design Thinking for more than 5 years at the HPI School of Design Thinking and other universities in Germany. As an innovation consultant she’s helped numerous clients (e.g. Hewlett Packard, Deutsche Bahn) in the cooperate world to integrate Design Thinking into their innovation processes.

Experience

2013 - present
Jury Member
FutureIdeas.org innovation competition
2012 - present
Freelance Innovation Consultant
2012 - present
Lecturer
Hasso-Plattner- Institut, School of Design Thinking
2012 - present
Predoctoral Research Fellow
Max-Planck- Institute for Human Development and the Berlin School of Mind & Brain
2012 - 2013
Program Manager
Hasso-Plattner-Institut, School of Design Thinking
2011
Innovation Designer
PCH Innovations Berlin – Los Angeles

Publications

2015
Bistability breaks-off deterministic responses to intracortical stimulation during non-REM sleep
Neuroimage
2013
Sensory processing of art as a unique window into cognitive mechanisms: evidence from behavioral experiments and fMRI studies
Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences
2015
A disembodied man: A case of somatopsychic depersonalization in schizotypal disorder
PsyCh journal

Courses by Caroline

Interaction Design

Design Thinking

07 Nov - 25 Nov 2016

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