Biography

Prof. dr. ir. Maaike Kleinsmann is professor of Design for Digital Transformation in the Department of Design, Organisation and Strategy at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands. She is also department head of the dept Design, Organisation and Strategy. In the healthcare domain she is active as a board member of the National eHealth Living Lab (NeLL), academic lead of Healthy Start (Convergence programme), scientific board member of the Delft Health Initiative, co-director of the International Special Interest Group of Health Systems Design (Design Society), and director of CardioLab (Delft Design Lab). She investigates how novel co-creative and data-driven design approaches can support ecosystems (consisting of public and private companies and users) with the digital transformation of healthcare in such a way that it is centred around human values, intentions, wishes and behaviours. She particularly focuses on the transformation from hospital care towards care at home with the use of Smart Remote Patient Management systems. Kleinsmann was awarded with several NWO research grants. Maaike’s work is published in leading design journals such as Design Studies, International Journal of Design, CoDesign and the Journal of Engineering Design. Besides her academic work, she advises companies on design driven innovation and transdisciplinary design.