Most of van Aubel's work involves incorporating solar cells into furniture, windows, and other objects. She has also designed a cover to maximize the surface area and thus the yield of a solar panel. Her solar-powered table charger,
Current Table, was included in the 2015
Design Museum Designs of the Year exhibition in London. In 2016 she won the 2015
Radicale Vernieuwer (radical renewer) award from the Dutch newspaper
Vrij Nederland In 2017 she was one of three winners of the Designer of the Future award sponsored by
Swarovski; tasked with using crystal, she incorporated portable solar cells within crystals to produce
Cyanometer, a set of three objects that store ambient light as they are carried around during the day and also include
LEDs to emulate the changing colors of the sky; at night they power a chandelier. Her
Well Proven Stool (2014, with James Shaw) is in the collection of the
Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the
Vitra Design Museum. She was a participant in the 2016–2017
Dream Out Loud design exhibition at the
Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 2018 she was invited to talk on 'The Beautiful Future of Solar Power' at a
TED (conference) in Amsterdam. In collaboration with V8 Architects she created a solar panel skylight for the Netherlands' pavilion at the Dubai
Expo 2020 which won the Public Award. In 2022, she founded the Solar Biennale at the
Het Nieuwe Instituut with Dutch fashion designer
Pauline van Dongen. == Books ==