Carla Molins-Pitarch
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Carla Molins-Pitarch, Ph.D., MFA, is an experience designer, creative technologist, and researcher working at the intersection of design, technology, and science to bring a tangible instance to complex concepts at the Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Center, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya- Barcelona (DiCode: digital culture and creative technologies research group). Former Marie Curie fellow researcher at ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design & Engineering (ChromDesign project); doctoral researcher (GRECC & OCC) in science communication at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain); La Caixa Fellow, Design & Technology MFA ’19 Parsons, The New School (NY, USA). Her practice has been centered on visualizing scientific concepts through haptic and interactive experiences, creating immersive experiences, including kinetic- robotic objects that materialize abstract concepts such as dark matter and genomes to provide learning and discovery. Her work and research have been presented and exhibited since 2013 in Spain, Finland, Switzerland, the USA, Belgium, Germany, France, Malta, and Austria.