Dr. ir. Laura Lee Stevens
Dr.ir. Laura Lee Stevens holds two MSc degrees in the fields of Architecture from Delft University of Technology, and in Biomimicry from Arizona State University. She is a biomimicry design educator in her role as a senior researcher/lecturer in the Industrial Design Engineering program at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. A sustainable Design instructor since 2007, she completed her PhD in Delft, where she wrote a series of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the topic of Biomimicry Design Thinking Education as a methodology to enhance circular, systems-thinking solutions in design by learning from time-tested biological strategies and mechanisms found in nature. This was followed by a Postdoc on the same subject to develop the needed tools to and students to learn biomimicry more easily. She is a public speaker on this subject and has a passion to transfer this knowledge to others.