About
Hi! My name is Lizzy, I am interested in everything material related in our phygital day to day lives. How are they made? What is their purpose? What are their limitations? What service do they provide us? How do we experience them? But more importantly: How can we extend the lifecycle and reduce the environmental impact of a material? Developing strategic product experiences from R&D to end-to-end is what drives me as a professional. You can put me in a design team in any kind of industry since my strength is to strategically analyse and adapt complex product development processes. However, I am at my best shaping better futures in entrepreneurial environments working with cross-disciplinary teams and stakeholders.

EXPERIENCE
2022 - present
2021 - 2022
2020 - 2021
2018 - 2019
2017 - 2018
Product Manager Materialisation ♻️ at Royal Ahrend
Industrial Designer at MüllervanTol
Material Designer at Jakob Schlaepfer AG
Freelance Designer at multiple clients
Junior designer at HOH Hoferhecht
R&D
2021 - present
2019 - 2020
2019 - 2020
2019
EDUCATION
Needleworks V.2
In co-creation with TU/e start-up Kickoff Lab
Funded by Stimuleringsfonds
Needleworks
Master thesis
Funded by Vescom BV
In co-creation with RCA Design Engineering department
Prospect & Refuge
In co-creation with RCA Intelligent Mobility design researcher Oliver Winter
PriestmanGoode x RCA Textiles
Future Materials Concept for Transport Sector
AWARDS
2018 - 2020
2013 - 2017
2016
2020
2018
2017
IMM Cologne Pure Talents Contest
Forbes 30under30
Lichting Talent Award
Royal College of Art London, UK
Masters: School of Design, Mixed Media
ArtEZ Arnhem, NL
Bachelors: Design
Cambridge English Council of Europe C1