Selin Yılmaz

TUM MMT | Stanford UIF

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

Currently researching cleantech VC networks to understand how capital flows shape sustainable innovation.

Experience

  • NewNow (Munich, Bavaria, Germany)
    • AI Solutions Consultant
      Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    • AI Solutions Consultant
      Oct 2025 - Jan 2026 · 4 mos

  • The Stanford d.school (5 yrs 9 mos)
    • University Innovation Fellow
      Oct 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

      The University Innovation Fellows program empowers students to become leaders of change in higher education. Fellows are leading a global movement to ensure that all students gain the attitudes, skills, and knowledge required to navigate a complex world. These student leaders from schools around the world create new opportunities that help their peers develop an entrepreneurial mindset, build creative confidence, seize opportunities, define problems, and address global challenges. Achievements: • Led the LetsInnomind Program, an interface program in ITU for student-industry collaboration aimed at enhancing the connection between student project teams and industry, encouraging them to co-create. • Co-created ITU Learning Community, which is the main Project of UIF 2020 ITU cohort, an online learning community at the campus in order to strengthen the innovative and entrepreneurial skillsets of the Istanbul Technical University students •Co-facilitated ITU Bee Days, which is one of the UIF 2020 ITU cohort projects that aimed to socialize students from different disciplines and grades in the online period •Co-facilitated the Design Thinking Workshop which took place in the Product Development course at Sophia University led by the Horizon team and UIF 2020 Sophia cohort

    • Team Coach (uiguide)
      Jul 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Uiguides are d.school's University Innovation Fellows who hold an 18-month long virtual position designed to help onboard and coach a new cohort. Responsibilities: •Mentoring the 2021 cohort of Dian Nuswantoro University and 2022 cohort of Koç University of the Stanford University Innovation Fellows program through their training •Co-facilitating monthly virtual community hours for the APAC cohorts

  • Community Member at 2hearts
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    Building tomorrow's tech society with cultural diversity: 2hearts is a community of people with immigration backgrounds from the tech scene (founders, investors, top executives) with the mission to empower great talent with immigration backgrounds to enrich Europe's tech economy.

  • BSH Home Appliances Group (Greater Munich Metropolitan Area · Hybrid)
    • Founders' Associate @ Q-Trust
      Jan 2025 - Jul 2025 · 7 mos

      Q-Trust is a BSH-Robert Bosch spinoff building digital quality certificates for second-hand home appliances. I joined early and ended up owning a bit of everything, revamping the product strategy, improving the UX, and shaping the G2M and monetization model while coordinating across BSH's broader digital services organization.

    • Working Student | Strategic Steering
      May 2024 - Dec 2024 · 8 mos

      I supported regional marketing strategy and digital transformation across 30 European countries, co-facilitated workshops with 40+ stakeholders to redesign product pages for MACH architecture and drove data-backed prioritization of key initiatives and KPIs for Region Europe.

    • Working Student | Consumer Experience Journey Orchestration
      Aug 2023 - May 2024 · 10 mos

      I piloted a custom transcreation system across 25 European markets replacing agency-dependent workflows, debugged online product advisors across 32 sales areas and 10+ product categories to improve conversion rates, and built a best-practice library covering 50+ customer experience initiatives across 35+ European countries.

  • Project Study | Digital Transformation at TUM International GmbH
    Feb 2024 - Sep 2024 · 8 mos

    TUM International is the international consulting and project management arm of the Technical University of Munich. For my project study, I worked on a digital readiness assessment with UNIDO across 12 Danube region countries, scoring national digital maturity using the EQuIP toolkit and building heatmaps and geomaps that fed into policy-facing reports for government stakeholders.