Dr. Trapp studied chemistry at the Technical University Berlin. Received a Ph.D. in catalysts for fuel cells at Newcastle University in 1996. He has fulfilled various training levels in International Business Development, Intellectual Property, and Six Sigma Green Belt. He has spent 5 years as a head of fuel cell component department, SGL Carbon, Germany; establishing a team of German, American, and Japanese technical staff and business developers. He was also responsible for the up-scaling of 2 different product lines: injection moulded bipolar plates and gas-diffusion electrode layers; and international business development. He worked 1 year as assistant to the company CTO, 4 years as head of IP department, 2 years as new business development, 2 years head of ceramic fiber project, and co-project of SGL Carbon with Fraunhofer ISC responsible for up-scaling of pilot product line and internation­al business development. In 2011 he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Sili­cate Research ISC. 2011 – 2013; established and managed a new department for battery research (30 employees). Present position: head of marketing and sales; responsible for international business development e.g. of advanced coatings, battery materials, speciality glasses, and many more.

Romain Hubert graduated from RWTH Aachen University in 1993 with a PhD in mechanical engineering. He joined the sustainable transport division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in February 2002. He worked in the areas of active and passive safety of road vehicles and on their environmental performances. He ensured the secretariat servicing to all six expert groups of the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29). Since 2011, he has provided secretariat servicing to the Working Party on General Safety Provisions (GRSG), the expert group in charge of the UN regulations on safety glazing.

Dietmar got a Ph.D. in 2002 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University at Freiburg; Thesis: ‘Synthesis of Layered Silicate Nano-Composites.’ Same year he joined DOW Automotive Research as a chemist for the development of ARG (after­market) adhesives. In 2009, he was appointed as a leader process research in DOW Automotive Elastic and Plastic Bonding Europe. Since 2015, he is a sr. research scientist for elastic and semi-structural adhesives for the Dow Automotive Europe.

Born in Paris in March 1962, François Boulay graduated from Ecole Centrale de Nantes. He joined Renault Group in 1987 and began his career with the responsibility of seats and body equipment development. The innovations on seats that where developed at that time gave a competitive advantage to the Renault brand. After a transition to a project team from 2003 to 2009, he joined the regulation department of Renault; in charge of monitoring the Gen­eral Safety Regulations developed in Geneva. Since 2014, he is the spokes­man of OICA (Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles) at GRSG group and participated in several working groups aiming at introduc­ing technical innovations into regulation.

Hans-Joachim Jahn, is the applications specialist for the temperature control product line at Thermo Fisher Scientific, for the EMEA region. He is respon­sible for bringing engineering principles; methods and techniques for solving temperature control application issues for our customers; and primarily pre-sales and post-sales technical support. Mr. Jahn has been a sales engineer for international companies developing business/distribution channels in Europe which included training responsibilities. He has over 10 years of international sales experience and experience in industrial engineering, radar control, pow­er transmission & distribution, service, technical support, trade fairs and sales. Mr. Jahn is based in our German office in Karlsruhe. He received his industrial engineering degree at the Technical University of Applied Sciences 2004.

Claire d’Achon is a french industrial designer, born on the 2nd of September 1983 in Tarbes (South Ouest France). She graduated in industrial design at the Design School of Nantes Atlantique in 2009. Her passion for equestrian and the automotive world have had a clear influence on her work. She ob­served horses, cars in movement or static, and understood that expression is important to get emotions. At a young age, she already wanted to participate in creating wonderful things. Nature changes during the seasons and the light and dark have a major role on how her designs appear to a stranger’s eye. Her only limit is her imagination. Of course for someone who loves beauty as much as necessities, she finds the best compromise between technics, con­straints and style, without forgetting trends. Including the most sensitive and complex challenge, human factor. She fits with enthusiasm in the industrial design world as a manager passionate about transportation. She is swayed by the following sentence; ‘from the function ensues the shape.’

Sercan studied at Marmara University in material science & metallurgical en­gineering, machine engineer. He spent 6 months in Japan under AOTS to take Japanese lessons. He started his career in new model project control and worked in this position for 3 years. Since February 2013, he has been coordinating a new model team to successfully start-up a new model; leading new model events; builds & evaluation management; managing communica­tion between Honda Turkey & other Honda Plants; managing part localisation projects for global & local suppliers for following parts; and conducting sup­plier selection & development activities (QAV). He is now appointed as new model chief.

Marco graduated as a chemical laboratory technician. He began his career in 1986 under this title at the BASF AG where he worked till 1989. He continued his education from 1992-1996, graduating from University of Applied Sciences in Mannheim as a process engineer; in 1996 – 1998 attended University of Business in Ludwigshafen, graduating in economic engineering. His profes­sional career continued as follows: 1996–1999 WKR mbH as deputy plant manager, managing a production unit; 1999-2001, head of process optimisa­tion in Sommer Allibert; 2001–2006, Faurecia Interior Systems as program manager, 2006–2008 as innovation manager; 2008–2012 core engineering manager global in TRW Automotive Electronics & Components GmbH. Since 2013, Marco is a director product engineering Europe in Vitro (former Pitts­burg Glass Works); managing the advanced and product engineering activi­ties for Europe customers.

Juergen Meinhardt studied physics and materials science at the University of Dortmund. Title of his Ph.D. thesis is, ‘Segregation, nanocrystallization and quasicrystallization of Zr-based glasses.’ In 1998, he was appointed as a group leader of electron microscopy at Fraunhofer-Institut für Silicatforschung ISC in Würzburg. In 2013, he takes a position as of centre for applied analytics ZAA leader at Fraunhofer ISC. Since 2015, he is a leader of the cluster services at Fraunhofer ISC.

Åsa Lundevall is a senior researcher and project manager at the Swerea IVF research institute. Her main focus is adhesive bonding and dry pre-treat­ments, like plasma.

David has more than 15 years of experience in adhesives for windscreen bonding at OEMs as well as in the automotive aftermarket. He has a B.S. de­gree in organic chemistry with an MBA. He has held multiple positions at Sika from R&D with focus on automotive OEM; to the automotive aftermarket in technical service; to sales & marketing. Currently in charge of Sika’s aftermar­ket business globally as corporate head automotive aftermarket.

Steffen Bornemann holds a Ph.D. in polymer chemistry. After studying chem­istry at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, he worked in dif­ferent positions as a global producer of hygiene and technical nonwovens. Since 2009, he is employed at Folienwerk Wolfen GmbH, a German company producing purpose-made films. Currently, he is responsible for research, de­velopment, and quality control. He is involved in several publications and pat­ents in polymer science and applications.

Andrea Mocellin gained a bachelor with honours at the IED in Turin, he later attended the Royal College of Art in London graduating with a master’s degree in vehicle design. His experiences have included working as senior exterior designer at Alfa Romeo/Maserati; as creative designer for Pininfarina, Audi AG, GM forum, Cleto Munari; and as interior designer in London. Various projects he has worked on have been exhibited during the Beijing and Geneve Motor show, Ever in Monaco, MART in Rovereto and the London Transport museum. Since 2014 he joined Granstudio; a mobility design consultancy able to combine a deep automotive design experience with a multi-disciplinary approach to create cars, products and strategies that are successful within their future context.