Thaís Cristina Martino Sehn

Thais Sehn is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Design at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS - Brazil) with a Brazillian scholarship from Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). As part of her doctoral program, she was a Visiting Researcher and a Fulbright Scholarship Grantee at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC - US).

Previously, she worked as a professor, teaching Graphic and Digital Design topics in two universities in Brazil, at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS, 2017) and Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel, 2014-2016). After that, she established her graphic design studio, Âme Studio Criativo.

Now, she is studying the interpersonal benefits for adults that read-aloud for each other and how Design could enhance the reading experience for the listener. Her main interests are Editorial Design; Emotional Design; Experience Design; Social reading; and Positive Psychology.

Update in June 2020.