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|}'''School:''' University of Twente 🇳🇱

Looking back'''Contact her about:''' HCI, UX, she is happy about her choice. The university offers a variety of opportunities for students to become active and meet new students. Inspired by other ambitious students and the drive to work in more interdisciplinary teamsMarketing, Student Wellbeing, Mental Health, organising workshops, she joined a group of students aiming at building a biosensor to increase epilepsy patient’s quality of life. HereProject Management, one thing became clear to her: Sustainable Mobility

One of such projects is promoting During her studies, she was striving towards working in interdisciplinary teams and developing herself. She noticed that to bring effective and sustainable transportchange, you need to sharpen your own skills as much as possible. She loves going on road trips but is often conflicted due Therefore, she decided to join the CO2 emissionsHonours Programme at the University of Twente. Travelling by train is Here, she learned about 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 also a great optioncontribute towards more sustainable mobility options.  Therefore, but still not satisfactorily environmentally friendly. That is why she wants joined Solar Team Twente which aims to support build the development of most efficient solar cars car in the world. She knew that with a team at her universitysocial science background, she could not help a lot with building the technology for sustainable mobility. She hopes However, she wanted to educate people about this issue contribute and make them realise found a way through promoting the potential organisation via various social media channels and other activities. That showed her that lies within solaryou can make an impact no matter what study background you have.  As a University Innovation Fellow, she focused mainly on student well-powered vehiclesbeing together with [[Fellow:Thomas Goudsblom|Thomas Goudsblom]]. Due Here, she developed a workshop a workshop to her passion for transport 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 mobilitywere shared via multiple channels. Next to that, she would also worked on other projects like to learn more about user experience the [https://www.utwente.nl/en/uif/european-meetup/european-meetup-impression/ European Meetup], connecting students and start-ups, and giving Design Thinking workshops.  Marlen is currently working in User Experience Research in that sectorMunich, Germany.