Alessandro Peyrot graduated in automotive engineering at Politecnico of Turin in March 2014 and wrote his thesis on NVH CAE analysis deployed towards Volvo Car Corporation. He works at FCA as a junior vehicle dynamics performance engineer on small SUV platforms, and since 2015 he has been assigned to the Mini platform as a performance engineer and to methodological development work groups as a technical specialist.

Ingemar Johansson received his master’s in mechanical engineering in 1980 from Linköping University of Technology. He began his career at Volvo BM and Volvo Trucks working with transmissions.In 1986, Ingemar started to work with chassis engineering at Volvo Cars, where he worked in a team that developed new suspension systems for a high-volume platform. In 1996, he started to work for Alcoa Automotive Structures in the sales department for structural aluminium systems and components. In 1999, Ingemar moved to England and started to work at Lotus Engineering and Lotus Cars, where he was responsible for all chassis systems in both Lotus Elise 2 and Lotus Evora. While at Lotus, Ingemar also worked with high-level chassis development for clients and began his cooperation with Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. In 2012, he started to work for Williams Advanced Engineering. In 2014, Ingemar moved back to Sweden and now has a position as a senior adviser within chassis engineering at China Euro Vehicle Technology (CEVT). From 2016, Ingemar also has a part-time position as a professor of the practice within Vehicle Engineering and Autonomous Systems at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Daniel Mainz graduated in automotive and aerospace engineering from Aachen University of Applied Sciences (Germany) in 2008. He started his career in the automotive industry in the field ofbody engineering as a technical consultant at Ingolstadt (Germany). After two years, he switched positions to vehicle dynamics and chassis engineering at Ford Motor Company. At the Ford Research & Innovation Center Aachen, he is responsible for global (mainly US and EU) lightweight chassis research projects, including new material approaches for chassis, new designs, new axle concepts and vehicle dynamics projects.

Through the global footprint of Ford Motor Company, he has experience working in Europe and the US as well as holding a broad network within the main markets of Ford.

Jason Zheng Jiang received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Ph.D. degree in Control Theory from the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Dr Jiang joined the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Bristol in 2013. He serves as the academic lead of the Vibration Suppression Research Unit, Dynamics and Control Group, and also an EPSRC Research Fellow on ‘Multidomain Vibration-Absorber Design’. Dr Jiang has long-standing research collaborations with industrial stakeholders from Automotive, Wind Energy, Rail and Civil sectors.

Ed Knoy has spent 29 years working in the auto industry, all with Ford Motor Company. He has worked in various regions, including Germany (20 years), USA (6 years) and Brazil (3 years), and has had various positions in chassis engineering, vehicle development, quality and body engineering. His current role is global suspension and frames manager, where he is responsible for the engineering of all the Ford product suspensions and frames globally. He is located in Cologne and works with all 10 product development centres that Ford has around the globe.

Andrea Ferrarelli graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy) in 2015. He received a master’s in vehicle engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2017 with a strong focus on vehicle dynamics, active participation in the Formula Student car design and as the author of a scientific paper on aerospace control prototyping. He wrote his thesis in collaboration with Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team on stability and driveability of an F1 car. Since 2017, he has been a suspension performance engineer at Renault Sport Racing, where he applies modern control techniques and vehicle dynamics to develop handling and ride performance.