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Armin Böshenz has more than 20 years of experience in different sales, marketing and management roles within the semiconductor industry with a strong background in automotive and industrial markets. Armin holds an engineering degree in electronics from the Technical University in Munich.Read more

Pamela is a futurist of feelings. Obsessed by our conflicted emotional relationship with technology, her work is part deep dive research and part design. As founder of Change Sciences, she’s collaborated with teams at Google, IKEA, 3DS, Prudential, and Virgin. Her insights have appeared in the LA Times, NPR, Slate, CBC, Quartz and her recent O’ReillyRead more

Katharina Hottelart is a UX Research Manager at Valeo. She studied market and communication research at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences. Katharina joined Valeo in 2007 whilst undertaking a part-time MBA program at Steinbeis University Berlin. Since 2010 she has been working with the Innovation and Collaborative Research Team on a wide range ofRead more

Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Heimberger studied at KIT in Karlsruhe and began his career in 1998 with the International Junior Research Group at DaimlerChrysler. From 1999 to 2002, he worked for Mercedes-AMG as project manager for vehicle projects, followed by another five years as manager for vehicle projects. From 2008 to 2012, Alexander Heimberger headed major vehicleRead more

Cornelius works as software developer for gestigon GmbH in Lübeck, Germany, which is part of the Valeo group. He entered the automotive industry in 2015, having worked in mathematical academia before. After working on eye tracking systems at Smart Eye AB for three years, he joined gestigon in the beginning of 2018, where he hasRead more

Iris Lydorf has a diploma in cognitive psychology and cognitive ergonomics. Her work focuses on human-machine interface in the field of automotive. For almost 10 years Iris works for the Ford Motor Company where she is part of the core HMI Team of Dr. Stefan Becker. Within this team, Iris is responsible for usability andRead more

Functional Project Leader HMI with 21 years of experience in construction machinery industry at Volvo Construction Equipment. Responsible for new HMI in Next Generation Cab projects for Articulated Dump Trucks and Wheel Loaders. Was responsible for the “Co-pilot” project for Wheel Loaders, the winner of the most innovated feature at the Car HMI award 2016.Read more

After a PhD on radar imagery in low frequencies for military application at the National Board of research in aerospace, Laurette joined Renault in the Research department in 2003 to work on environment detection sensors. After a few years on the vehicle project to develope parking assistance sytems , she joined LAB in 2013. InRead more

Alexander Mirnig is a Research Fellow at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), an interdisciplinary research facility at the University of Salzburg, Austria. His main research areas are user interaction with and within automated vehicles, safe and effective control transitions in Level 3+ automated vehicles, trust in automation and interactive technologies, ethics in automation, and cross-discipline knowledgeRead more

Peter Rössger is founder of beyond HMI/////. We focus on creating knowledge on HMIs, usability and user experience for the automotive industry, the Industrial Internet, mobile machinery, and software applications. We perform studies on usability and user experience. We use our knowledge to develop HMI concepts for our customers. Until early 2015 Peter was Business Development DirectorRead more