Julieta Matos Castaño
Scientific Advisor
Helping organizations and people shape their futures in a creative, collaborative way
Through my work, I support organizations (and people!) to explore, envision, and shape futures. To best help organizations in their transformational endeavors, I strongly believe in the power of bringing together academic insights, change management practices, and creativity. In this process, I really enjoy developing spatial or visual methods and approaches to stimulate collaboration in complex multi-stakeholder contexts.
From an early age, I have had many interests: from becoming a painter and writer to understanding the nuts and bolts of complex processes. I have kept this curiosity, which has made me a versatile professional. At Factorr, I act as a scientific advisor, helping to develop and curate scientific programs with societal impact in placemaking projects.
Highlights
1983
Born in Madrid, Spain (Spanish mother tongue, English fluent, and Dutch and French good)
2008
Graduated in Technical Aeronautical Engineering (Airport Planning), Technical
University of Madrid
2011
Master’s degree in Construction Management and Engineering, University of Twente
2016
Finished my PhD on "Dilemmas in Multi-Stakeholder Projects" at the University of Twente where I developed a tool to make dilemmas explicit (the Dilemma Cube)
2016
Started working as a change management consultant at Deloitte Netherlands
2019
Postdoctoral researcher in the field of smart cities and futures consultant
Started working for Factorr as a senior creative consultant
2022
Researcher at DesignLab working on futures design
Became scientific advisor for Factorr