We are a dynamic and interdisciplinary team with different professional backgrounds and strengths. What unites us is the vision to expand the collaboration between students and industry partners and the mission to strengthen the innovation potential in Stuttgart.
We love teamwork and creative work and are constantly developing new formats to empower teams to collaborate. We bring a high level of communication skills and innovative methods, because the merging of creativity and innovation is outside the comfort zone and ensures finding out-of-the-box solutions – that's what sets us apart.
Scarlett is Head of Design Factory Stuttgart and responsible for the strategic development as well as the expansion of Design Factory Stuttgart. Together with her team and stakeholders, she is constantly co-creating new formats and loves to strengthen the success of teams and projects through individual workshops and coaching. She has a technical background in aerospace engineering and technology management. Her Design Thinking competence has been certified by the Hasso Plattner Institute and she is a trained change manager as well as an organizational developer.
David is Program Lead of Design Factory Stuttgart and responsible for the execution and strategic development of formats at the intersection of student and industry collaboration. As a certified Scrum Master (PSM 1), he methodically leads teams and connects agile frameworks and methodologies with projects at the ARENA2036 research campus. David holds a PhD in Medical Physics / Biophotonics from the Medical University of Vienna, where he worked on optical imaging for intraoperative tumor detection. From his further work as research coordinator of ARENA2036 he brings strategic ideas and concepts to Design Factory Stuttgart.