Carlos joined SHU as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art & Design coming from the University of Brighton in 2021. He is an award-winning designer, researcher and educator with a product design background. His main research interest is centred on design for health and on interdisciplinary collaboration, especially between designers and scientists. His other research interests include service design, system thinking and complexity, user-centred design, and design for society. He pursues both theoretical and practice-based design research.

I am the MA in Design for Health & Wellbeing course leader and the collaborative Course leader of the Product Design programme at the SHU/Hong Kong Design Institute. I am also the module leader of the Advanced Design Principles module at Product Design and teaches across modules in the BA (Hons) Product Design Course.

I hold an MA in Product Design from Domus Academy (Milan) and completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2013 with a research project examining collaboration between designers and scientists in the context of scientific research. After graduating with a BA in Product Design in 1987 and practising design as a consultant and entrepreneur in commercial and industrial environments for several years, I started my teaching career as a design lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia.

I then taught product design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (CSM) and the Glasgow School of Art, where I became the head of its BDes/MEDes in Product Design. My work at GSA, where I integrated social sciences research methods into the product design curriculum and expanded its scope towards services design, earned me recognition from the Design Week magazine as one of the "Hot Fifty" in design in 2007.

Before Joining SHU, I worked at the University of Brighton teaching at the BA Design Futures, the BA in Design and Craft and the BA in Product Design. I also taught at the MA Innovation Management in CSM's. At Brighton, I created and led the Design for Ideology (DfI) Studio for Level 5 and 6 product design students. This studio encouraged students to reflect on the design ethical implications of their ideological stance within social and productive contexts. My research focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration, service design and design for health.

After completing my PhD in 2013, I held a post-doctoral position at Aalto University in Helsinki in 2016-17. I was part of the DWoC (Design Driven Value Chains in the World of Cellulose) project funded by the Finish Government (TEKES and VVT), investigating collaboration between designers and scientists in the context of materials development. On my return from Finland, I collaborated with clinicians and researchers from the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and the Martin Fisher Foundation in projects about HIV transmission and the de-stigmatisation and well-being of people living with HIV. Public Health England and ViiV Healthcare funded these projects.

Subsequently, my team and I received the BMJ (British Medical Journal) innovation award in 2018 for the development of an HIV self-test kit vending machine and its linkage to care services. In 2019, I received the "Beyond Bauhaus, Prototyping the Future" design award for the "Moss Table" project, developed in collaboration with colleagues from the Plant Science and Biochemistry Department and the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) from the University of Cambridge. This award commemorates the 100 years of the Bauhaus. They selected my work from 1500 worldwide entries. I am willing to supervise PhD projects in design for health, interdisciplinary collaboration, design for society and service design.