Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost

Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost is Professor of Design Research at the UdK Berlin and heads the Design Research Lab. With international partners, she develops research and teaching projects on issues in a digital society, including wearable computing and social-digital participation.

In 2006 she was one of the "100 Faces of Tomorrow" in the German government initiative "Germany – Land of Ideas"; in 2009 she received the Young Scientists Award from the governing mayor of Berlin. She is chair-woman of the German Association for Design Theory and Research (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung  e.V. .) and a member of the executive board of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

From 2014 to 2018, she was the Internet Ambassador of the Federal Government to the European Commission and has been a member of the Supervisory Board at SAP since 2015. She is a member of the EKD and the Goethe Institute.

Since 2016, she has been a founding member of Calliope gGmbH, which aims to pro-vide digital education to German children starting in the third grade using the Calliope minicomputer.