Lisa Marie Sneijder is a design researcher and curator, who is currently working for the Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO) on her PhD examining design exhibitions from 1960s until now where design is used as a discursive and radically relational framework within the curatorial narrative and the approach is to exhibit critical questions and create radically imaginative experiences to address socio-political issues. The PhD is under the supervision of Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans (VUB), Laurens Dhaenens (KULeuven) and Jane Tynan (VU Amsterdam).

She previously worked at Design Academy Eindhoven and as the editor-in-chief of Kunstlicht, an academic journal about visual culture. She is a graduate of the MA Design Cultures (2020-2021) at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam where she came second in the VU Humanities Thesis Prize for her research on the decolonial aesthetics of the Black Panther Party newspaper. She is also a graduate of the MA Curating Contemporary Design (in partnership with the Design Museum) (2021-2022) at Kingston University London for which she received the Young Talent Award by het Cultuurfonds and a scholarship by VSB Fonds.