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Dr.-med. Wolfram Hell

Institute for Forensic Medicine Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Dr. Wolfram Hell studied medicine in Antwerp/Belgium, Munich/Germany and Charlottesville/USA. Subsequently he worked in BMW’s accident research and analysis department. From 1992 to 2003 he headed the biomechanics and medicine department at the GDV (German Insurance Association) Institute for Vehicle Safety in Munich. Since 2004 he has been the head of the medical and biomechanical accident analysis group at the Institute for Forensic Medicine of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Moreover he has been working as an biomechanics/medicine expert witness for traffic accidents since 1997. Amongst other memberships he is member of the Injury Scaling Committee of the American Association for Automotive Medicine AAAM and founding member of IIWPG.

Dipl.-Ing. Kai Golowko

Bertrandt Ingenieurbüro GmbH

Dipl.-Ing. Kai Golowko has been working in the area of vehicle safety since 1999. He started his career as a test engineer for passive safety at ACTS. Since 2003 he has been working as senior engineer for occupant safety and pedestrian protection. Since 2005 he manages the department vehicle safety at Bertrandt in Gaimersheim. In this position he is responsible for component development and validation and integrated safety.

Dr. Lothar Groesch

Groesch Automotive Safety Consulting

Dr. Lothar Groesch has been working in safety engineering for more than 35 years, both at one of the leading OEMs in Passive & Active Safety, and w/ a major supplier in pioneering new automotive safety sensors & systems. From 2001 to 2009, he worked for Bosch in the United States as a Product Director for Automotive Safety Systems, thus he is particularly familiar w/ US specific requirements. Although joining the carhs TrainingCenter quite recently, he has a long experience in guest teaching at several universities in the US & Germany, as well as in company internal training seminars, technical marketing, customer presentations & workshops. In 2009 Dr. Grösch has founded Groesch Automotive Safety Consulting.

Dr.-Ing. Axel Hänschke

Ford Werke GmbH

After studying automotive engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Dr.-Ing. Axel Hänschke did a doctorate at the Technical University Berlin with the topic “Computer-aided design of vehicles”. After a stint at VW GEDAS he has worked for many years in various management positions at Ford. Currently he is head of vehicle safety for small cars (Fiesta) worldwide. He is also director of the FAT working group AK27 – calculation methods and the Working Group on “CAE in the determination of concept”. He also lectures “The car body and its interpretation” at the Institute of Automotive Engineering, TU Berlin.

Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Kinsky

Adam Opel AG

Thomas Kinsky studied automotive engineering at the TU Dresden. After graduating in 1991 he has been working 4 years as a certified expert on motor vehicle traffic at TÜV Rheinland, and then he took over the management of the department vehicle at a small medium sized company. Since 1999 he is working for the Adam Opel AG in the development center of vehicle requirements. He cared mostly on developing laws on pedestrian safety and represents GM Europe / Opel in the appropriate working groups at the VDA, ACEA and OICA.

Dipl.-Ing. Frank Leimbach

DEKRA Technology Center

Frank Leimbach studied Mechanical Engineering at the University Essen from 1980 to 1986. From 2002 to 2004 he completed his course to a licensed Technical Expert with RWTÜV in Essen. Since 2006 Mr. Leimbach is Division Manager of the DEKRA Technology Center and responsible for the DEKRA Accident Research in Stuttgart, the Crash Test Center in Neumünster and the Automobil Test Center with the test track at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz. Mr. Leimbach is chair of the working group vFSS Advanced Forward-Looking Safety Systems, established 2009. Since 2006 Mr. Leimbach is also Managing Director of the KTI in Lohfelden.

Dr. Thorsten Leonhardt

Audi AG

Thorsten Leonhardt studied physics and mathematics at Kaiserslautern University and finished there his PhD. Since 2003 he is working at Audi, starting on the development of occupant and pedestrian sensing systems and as a project leader in the transversal platforms. Since 2012 he is responsible for the department foreign localities and international markets in vehicle safety.

Dipl.-Ing. Volker Sandner

ADAC Technology Center Landsberg am Lech

Volker Sander is leading the Department of passive safety in the ADAC, Landsberg am Lech since 2007. Previously, he was responsible as a team responsible for building the crash system. He has extensive experience as an expert in accident reconstruction. In Euro NCAP he is a member of the technical working group and the Whiplashsubgroup.

Dipl.-Ing. Roland Schaefer

Ford Werke GmbH

Roland Schaefer studied safety engineering with subject traffic safety. He is Supervisor in the Automotive Safety Office of Ford of Europe and responsible for the liaison with research organisations, associations, laboratories and with governments for vehicle safety related topics. Furthermore he is an expert for accident research for many years and as such member of several working groups on national and international level.

Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Schaub

Daimler AG

Since 1998 Prof. Ing Norbert Schaub is the Head of the testing of passive safety, durability, NVH and vehicle functions at the Mercedes Car Group Development. In this function, he is also responsible for the implementation of all crash, sled and component tests and for measuring and testing technology, the testing and the IT infrastructure of passive safety. After studying mechanical engineering and production technology he has worked on the Mercedes Car Group with the Test Technology Development Division and managed the testing technology until 1998. Since 1989 he is lecturer at the University Esslingen and teaches the subjects of vehicle safety and project management and since 2003 he teaches as a visiting lecturer passive safety of motor vehicles at the Vehicle Safety Institute of the Technical University of Graz.

Dipl. Ing. Heiko Schebdat

Adam Opel AG

Dipl. Ing. Heiko Schebdat graduated as a Fotoengineer at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. After a diploma thesis in the area of driver assistance systems for the AUDI AG in Ingolstadt, he was working for three years in the electric/electronic group of the EDAG GmbH & Co. KGaA. Since 2011 he is working for the department GME Vehicle Safety Integration inside the Adam Opel AG. His field of work is defined as Accident Research and Integrated Safety, which includes the concept development for the integration of driver assistance systems. Additionally he is representing GM/Opel in the workgroups vFSS, VDA and several accident research commitees.

Direktor und Professor Andre Seeck

Direktor und Professor Andre Seeck

Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt)

Director and Professor Andre Seeck is the head of the Automotive Engineering Department at the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) and is thus responsible for the pre-regulative research of various European safety regulations. He is the President and the German representative on the Board of Directors of the Euro NCAP. In these roles, he has a deep insight into current and future developments in vehicle safety.

Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Zander

Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt)

Oliver Zander studied Safety Engineering at the University of Wuppertal and started his career as Safety Engineer at the JCI European Headquarters in Burscheid. Since 2002 he works as a scientist at the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), where since 2009 he is Deputy Head of the Section Passive Vehicle Safety, Biomechanics. His main responsibilities are pedestrian protection (amongst others german representative of the GRSP Informal Group GTR9 Phase 2, EEVC Working Group 17 “Pedestrian Safety”, and the Euro NCAP Technical Working Groups “Passive Safety” and “Pedestrian Protection”), the Euro NCAP crash and pedestrian testing and European Research Projects w.r.t. passive vehicle safety.