Dr. Caroline Szymanski

Caroline Szymanski studied neuroscience, medical neuroscience and design thinking in Germany, France and Italy. She worked on the neural correlates of deception at the Max Planck Institut for Neurologial Research, Cologne and on consciousness with Marcello Massimini at the Ospedale Sacco in Milan, before turning to social neuroscience. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the Humboldt University in Berlin for her work on the neural correlates of teamwork, working with Ulman Lindenberger at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and within the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. Within the neurosciences, she has mainly worked and published in social neuroscience with a focus on EEG- hyperscanning.

While pursuing her PhD work on neural team dynamics Caroline Szymanski has also worked on applied team dynamics within the field of strategic innovation and Design Thinking.

She has been teaching at the School of Design Thinking Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam, Germany since 2012 both in the student and the executive program. She taught classes in Design Thinking at the Free University Berlin, Humboldt Universität, Technical University Berlin, Berlin Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies and the Charité. In WS 2016 she was a guest professor (Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs) at the HarbourSpace University in Barcelona.Since 2013 Caroline Szymanski has been working as an innovation consultant for clients such as Airbus, Bosch, C&A, Commerzbank, Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, Eon, Helios Clinics, Hewlett Packard or Roche.