This lecturet will cover different aspects and strategies prototyping ideas, products and services for the purpose of raising funding, developing innovation leadership and solving big problems of society. 

Dr Elena Dieckmann's specialist area is process innovation for circular materials, derived from waste or bio-feedstocks. Her main research contribution to date is the development of the world's first feather based thermal packaging material, which was launched in Europe (2018) under the brand pluumo through Aeropowder Ltd. Elena leads the second year of the MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering, a joint master between the Royal College of Art and Imperial College.

She helps students to develop and prototype disruptive innovations in different fields, such as sustainable material design, Products-as-a-Service (PaaS), Product design, Food Design, Logistics, Deep Tech Products and Mobility.