Lia Gerdes is a research associate the Institute for Organizational Design and Collaboration Engineering at TUHH. She holds a Master's degree in Innovation & Business from the University of Southern Denmark and a Bachelor's degree in Production and Process Engineering from the University of Bremen.

After working for some time as a project engineer in special machine construction, she founded a company with the aim of significantly accelerating the first phase of innovation projects with the help of creative, collaborative idea development and iterative prototyping.

She now wants to explore the question of the optimal conditions for the development of new, innovative products from a scientific perspective.