Carlos Peralta is an award-winning product designer and researcher with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His work focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration between designers and scientists, as well as the interplay between design and ideology and the role of design in social change. He specialises in design for health, exploring how design can address pressing health challenges, improve wellbeing, and contribute to healthcare innovation.

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Carlos graduated as a product designer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia and holds a master’s in industrial design from Domus Academy, Italy. His international experience spans Colombia, Spain, Finland, and the UK. Notably, his Moss Table project won the "Beyond Bauhaus: Prototyping the Future" award in 2019 in Berlin, commemorating 100 years of Bauhaus. He was awarded the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Innovation Award (2018) in London for developing vending machines that sell HIV self-test kits. He was also recognised among Design Week's top 50 most influential figures in design in 2007, a distinction linked to his role as leader of the BDes/MEDes Product Design Programme at Glasgow School of Art, where he integrated social sciences research methods into the design curriculum.

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Carlos currently leads the MA Design programme and the MA Design for Health at Sheffield Hallam University. He lives in Sheffield, England, with his wife and business partner, Dr Liliana Rodriguez.

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