Vera Stassen is a product designer based in Berlin. She completed her apprenticeship to become a goldsmith and afterwards studied product design at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld, at the Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland and the weissensee school of art and design berlin. Furthermore, she attended external courses at the Düsseldorf Peter Behrens School of Arts, the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and the Cologne International School of Design. After her studies she worked for Studio Mark Braun and Studio Hanne Willmann.
 
She embarks on a researching quest, dealing with themes such as environment, material, nature and human senses. Although, her on-going fascination with ceramic and glass dominates her work, with her background as goldsmith and the studies in product design she deals with various materials and ideas in scientific, artistic and practice-oriented way.