Isabelle Reymen is Scientific Director and General Manager of TU/e innovation Space, and Full Professor Design of Innovation Ecosystems at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). TU/e innovation Space is the center of expertise for Challenge-Based Learning and Entrepreneurial Learning at TU/e, and the learning hub that facilitates co-creation of responsible solutions to real-world challenges by interdisciplinary teams of students, with researchers, industry, and societal organizations.
She combines entrepreneurial thinking with a passion for design processes and aims for system innovation. In 2020 she became Comenius Leadership Fellow and was granted a scholarship for performing research on Challenge-Based Learning. In 2021 she, and her team, were granted the first Higher Education Award in the Netherlands for the educational innovations in the past few years. In 2022, TU/e innovation Space received international recognition by winning the European Triple E award in the category ‘Innovation and Collaboration Space of the Year’.