Hannah Carlotta Kelbel

Hannah is a researcher, inventor and coach. She has a passion for innovation and problem finding and a solid background in science, design and engineering. She has an MSC in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University and is a graduate of HPI d.school for Design Thinking.

She works as a Design Thinking Coach and as a PhD researcher in textile material design.

Hannah combines knowledge from engineering and science with design methods and vice versa to help startups, companies and institutes to innovate through agile prototyping. With her knowledge, she enables innovation along the supply chain, productions line and product development. On the academic side, Hannah researches in her PhD at RWTH Aachen University the application of human-centred design for material science and engineering.

Hannah truly practices innovation through thinking with her hands and loves to enable others to do so.