Advisory Board

Chair: Prof. Dr Ferit Küçükay

Director, Center for Automotive Engineering
Innovationsgesellschaft Technische Universität Braunschweig mbH

Dirk Adamczyk

Senior Vice President Engineering Services & Solutions
ZF Friedrichshafen AG

Georg Bednarek

Vehicle Engineering
Director Regulations & Certification
Stellantis

Dr Sven Beiker

Founder and Managing Director, Silicon Valley Mobility; Lecturer in Management,
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Dr Carsten Bünder

Director Global Product Management,
Magna Powertrain Transmission Systems

Dr Ulrich Burr

Senior Vice President – Testing, New Technologies and Development,
J.M. Voith SE & Co. KG

Dr Klaus Denkmayr

Director Research and Development Projects
AVL Commercial Driveline and Tractor Engineering GmbH

Prof. Dr Robert Fischer

Chief Technology Officer
Engineering
AVL List GmbH

Stefan Fuchss

Chief Engineer Electric Drive Units, Transmission and Driveline,
Jaguar Land Rover

Christian Gueter

Head of Transmission Powertrain Development
BMW Group

Philippe Hamon

Valeo Powertrain Electrified Mobility R&D and Product Marketing Director
Valeo eAutomotive, Germany

Prof. Dr Malte Jaensch

Chair of Sustainable Mobile Drivetrains
TUM School of Engineering and Design

Prof. Dr Arno Kwade

Director, Institute for Particle Technology,
Technische Universität Braunschweig

Jimmy Larsson

Engineering Director, Head of Propulsion Development
Scania CV AB

Dr Thilo Leineweber

Head of Development,
Robert Bosch GmbH

Prof. Jan Gang LU

Professor, PhD Director, Beijing Institute of Technology;
CTO, Sanhua Automotive USA

Dr Holger Manz

Head of Energy Management and High Voltage Systems
Electric / Electronic Development
Volkswagen AG

Prof. Dr Axel Mertens

Director of the Institute, Power Electronics and Drive Control Department,
Institute for Drive Systems and Power Electronics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

Prof. Dr Anke Müller

Professor, Manufacturing Methods in Mechanical Engineering
Hof University

Torsten Murr

Global Technology Manager Transmission Fluids,
Shell Global Solutions (Deutschland) GmbH

Dr Prabjot Nanua

Director, Global Engine & Transmission Advanced Engineering
General Motors

Konstantin Neiß

Director R&D Transmissions & eDrives
Daimler AG

Tatsuya Osone

Vice President Advanced Technology Development and CTO,
JATCO Co. Ltd

Sascha Ott

Managing Director Institute of Product Engineering and Managing Director
KIT Center Mobility Systems,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Prof. Dr Bernd Ponick

Director of the Institute, Electrical Machines and Drive Systems Department,
Institute for Drive Systems and Power Electronics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

Stephan Rebhan

Senior Vice President Technology & Innovation
Vitesco Technologies

Prof. Dr Stephan Rinderknecht

Director, Institute for Mechatronical Systems in Mechanical Engineering,
Technische Universität Darmstadt

Gianpiero Saroglia

Technical Director Transmission Engineering,
Stellantis N. V.

Michael Schäfer

Head of Transmission Development,
Volkswagen AG

Raf Schuermans

Technical Senior Manager – Advanced Powertrain
Toyota Motor Europe

Takashi Shibayama

Research Associate,
Tokyo Denki University

Udo Sommerhalter

Director & Customer Chief Engineer,
Valeo Powertrain

Gunnar Stein

VP of European Commercial, Strategy and Execution, Business Unit Commercial Vehicle
DANA Inc.

Prof. Dr Peter Tenberge

Director, Institute for Industrial and Automotive Drivetrains,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Dr. Franz Völkel

Director of R&D, Business Unit Roller Bearings
Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG

Dr Götz von Esebeck

Vice President, Technical Officer Electromobility, R&D,
TRATON AG

Prof. Dr Burghard Voss

Chair of Automotive Engineering and Drives
Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg

Dr Michael Wagner

Vice President Global Engineering and Product Management
BorgWarner Drivetrain Systems
BorgWarner Drivetrain Engineering GmbH

Carsten Weber

Manager, Engine & Powertrain Systems
Research & Advanced Engineering,
Ford Motor Company

Dr Michael Winkler

General Manager, Head of Powertrain,
Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center GmbH

Prof. Dr Xiangyang Xu

Executive Deputy Director of National Engineering Research Center for Passenger Car Automatic Transmissions,
School of Transportation Science & Engineering, Beihang University

Hiroyuki Yada

President
JATCO France SAS

Prof. Dr Tong Zhang

Director, National Fuel Cell Vehicle and Powertrain System Engineering Center
Clean Energy Automotive Engineering Center,
Tongji University