Charlotte Qin
Executive Director at QINTHEORY
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlotte Qin is a Chinese-Canadian physicist-turned-artivist with 10 years of experience blending science, design, and policy to create transdisciplinary programs and artworks. As Executive Director and co-founder of Meeting of Waters in Geneva, she has steered the NGO from youth initiative to an internationally partnered organization focused on water, faith, and peace while leading brand, fundraising, and program strategy. Trained in physics (McGill) and innovation design engineering (Imperial College London / Royal College of Art), she translates computational modeling and systems thinking into evocative installations, data visualizations, and humanitarian prototypes. Her career spans research roles at CERN and medical physics, industry work at Nokia Bell Labs, and science-policy design at the Graduate Institute, giving her a rare fluency across lab, studio, and diplomatic spaces. Known for combining rigorous evidence-based methods with a quiet, embodied aesthetic, she often frames technical projects through storytelling and memory to engage diverse publics. Based in Geneva, she builds international collaborations that turn complex environmental and social challenges into curious, culturally resonant interventions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Innovation Design Engineering, Master of Arts - MA, Innovation Design Engineering at Royal College of ArtMaster of Science - MS, Innovation Design Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at McGill University
Chinese, English, French, German
Github Skills (3)
java2
data-processing1
data-management1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
qintheory/mindscapes
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:57 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
qintheory/morphosis
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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