DrFrédérique Sunstrum

Dr Frédérique Sunstrum is an industrial designer and Course Director in Product Design in the Faculty of Design and Society. With a background in psychology, her research focuses on health and medical devices, exploring how people perceive and interact with products, to enhance safety, compliance, and quality of life. She specialises in product semantics, ergonomics and human factors engineering, with a focus on wearble medical technologies, such as non-invasive glucose monitoring, heart rate monitoring for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), and large-dose on-body autoinjectors.

Frédérique completed her PhD in Industrial Design at the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2022. She has over seven years of experience teaching at institutions such as UNSW and Western Sydney University, alongside work as a freelance industrial designer and contract researcher. Frédérique is a multi-award winner and has a track record in innovation, holding two patents in autoinjector device designs, and has contributed to several collaborative projects over the years.