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==Bio=='''Cohort:''' Fall 2020 '''Contact her about:''' HCI, UX, Marketing, Student Wellbeing, Mental Health, organising workshops, Project Management, Sustainable Mobility '''Contact via:''' [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlen-braun/ LinkedIn] - Just reach out and ask me anything! :)  Marlen is a Psychology student from fellow at the University of Twente (UT) in the Netherlands. Originally Although originally from Germany, she came decided to move to the UT Netherlands for her university degree. She is curious about other cultures, new project ideas, and learning new things.  During her studies, she was striving towards working in interdisciplinary teams and developing herself. She noticed that to bring effective and sustainable change, you need to sharpen your own skills as much as possible. Therefore, she decided to learn more join the Honours Programme at the University of Twente. Here, she learned about human-computer interaction Change Management, developed her presentation skills, and was part of an inspiring community. After finishing her bachelor’s in Psychology, she further wanted to gain professional work experience in Marketing and how also contribute towards more sustainable mobility options.  Therefore, she joined Solar Team Twente which aims to make systems user friendlierbuild the most efficient solar car in the world. She is passionate about knew that with a social science background, she could not help a lot with building the technology for sustainable mobility. However, she wanted to contribute and found a way through promoting the organisation via various social media channels and other activities. That showed her that you can make life easier an impact no matter what study background you have.  As a University Innovation Fellow, she focused mainly on student well-being together with [[Fellow:Thomas Goudsblom|Thomas Goudsblom]]. Here, she developed a workshop a workshop to help students envision their (professional) future. Moreover, she worked on the “[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7CrRMegujo Are you okay?” campaign] aimed at breaking the stigma around talking about well-being. Within the project, 3 videos were produced that encouraged students to open up about how they are really doing and share problems they are facing. The videos reached over 4000 students and user experience in were shared via multiple channels. Next to that, she also worked on other projects like the mobility[https://www.utwente.nl/en/uif/european-meetup/european-meetup-impression/transport sectorEuropean Meetup], connecting students and start-ups, and giving Design Thinking workshops.  Marlen is currently working in User Experience Research in Munich, Germany.