- Duration: 2 mins
- Publication date: 18 Dec 2024
- Part of series Young Woman Engineer YWE
Abstract
Introducing Marisa Kurimbokus, our 2024 Young Woman Engineer of the Year. Marisa is a Chartered Engineer with a career spanning over a decade in product design and systems engineering within the automotive and power electronics industries including Jaguar Land Rover, Triumph Motorcycles and Lyra Electronics. In her work, she has led a multidisciplinary engineering design team and been responsible for all engineering activities, including delivery of projects, R&D, design, testing and prototyping. Marisa keenly supports engineers at all levels and STEM is a huge passion for her, fuelled by her lack of guidance and inspirational role models when she was a student. She has been listed in the Top 50 Women in Engineering: Inventors and Innovators in 2022 for her work in net-zero and green technology