Manuel Baptista is a design engineer currently employed at Bodum since July 2023. Prior experience includes a global product management internship at Bosch from February to June 2023 and a consultancy role focused on a master thesis at LEGO Education from February to June 2022. Additional roles encompass a maker lab student assistant at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark from May 2021 to January 2022, a design intern at the LEGO Group from August to December 2021, and a student consultant in product and service innovation at the SUGAR Network for Design Innovation from October 2019 to June 2020, where an international team worked on enhancing user experience for Konecranes. Manuel holds a master's degree in IT product design from Syddansk Universitet, a post-graduation ME310 in product and service innovation from Porto Design Factory, and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto.