Dr. ir. Kobus, C.B.A

Charlotte Kobus is a lecturer at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. She provides bachelor design students with the foundations of (sustainable) consumer behaviour and consumer research. And she coaches master students on having a positive societal impact with their designs within courses like social venturing.

Charlotte completed her MSc Strategic Product Design in 2010 and - in love with the faculty and its research as she was - has never left the building. As a PhD researcher in design she investigated how design can encourage households to use energy more sustainably and efficiently. Next to her research and teaching activities at the faculty, she has always worked as a design practitioner with(in) public organisations on different societal challenges.

• 2011-2016
  PhD in Design and consumer research at Delft University of Technology │ Delft - the Netherlands
  Project: A switch by design. User-centred design of smart energy technologies to change habits of using energy at home
• 2008–2010
  Master’s in Strategic Product Design at Delft University of Technology │ Delft - the Netherlands
  Project: Smart grids. Changing consumer interaction
• 2008–2008 
  Study abroad at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia │ Valencia - Spain
• 2004–2008 
  Bachelor’s in Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology │ Delft - the Netherlands  

• 2016-present
  Owner TINH │Utrecht - the Netherlands
• 2011-2016
  PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology│Delft - the Netherlands
• 2012-2015
  Innovator at Enexis B.V.│’s-Hertogenbosch - the Netherlands
• 2010-2012
  Management trainee at Enexis B.V.│’s-Hertogenbosch - the Netherlands

• Consumer research
• Design for sustainable behaviour
• Energy
• User-centred design

• Masters Graduation Project - coaching
• Social venturing
• Consumer behaviour & consumer research

• Jouw Energie Moment
• MOOC Design Practice in Business