Danielly de Paula

Danielly is a postdoc at the Chair of Design Thinking and Innovation Research at the Hasso Plattner Institute.
She holds a PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Ireland - Galway and a master’s in computer science from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. She is originally from Recife, Brazil.
During her master studies, she worked as an Innovation Manager at the Blackberry Tech Center Recife (Brazil) where she led the Design Thinking team to develop B2C mobile applications.
Over the last seven years, Danielly has been conducting research on the topic of implementing, measuring and steering design thinking in organizations. She has also been a member of the HPI/Stanford Design Thinking Research Program for the past years.
She is part of the teaching team for the Global Team-based Innovation master course, which is part of the SUGAR network. SUGAR is a global network that brings together students, universities and companies for the future of innovation through a new learning experience. SUGAR network facilitates human-centered design to young minds.