In 1991 Jochen Feese joined the former Mercedes-Benz AG. 1994 he concluded his studies in electrical engineering and began his career in the Mercedes-Benz passenger car development. Until October 2000 he worked in the cockpit development in various vehicle projects for the E and S Class. He then moved to the Group Research & Advanced Engineering division and worked as executive assistant for the research directorates Electronics and Mechatronics and Corporate Quality Management. Under his leadership, in October 2004, the Tech Center Japan of the Mercedes-Benz Cars Development division was established. The department is active in the topics driver assistance systems, telematics and hybrid. In 2009 he returned to Germany and took the lead in Group Research & Advanced Engineering for the department Technology Transfer Driver Assistance Systems/Active Safety until March 2010. From April 2010 until October 2014 he was responsible for Technology Management and Research Policy. Today he is head of Accident Research, Concepts, Child Safety, Sensor Functions & Systems Integral Safety in the R&D division of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

Sebastian Hergeth is a vehicle safety specialist at the BMW Group. His work focuses on the investigation of driver attention and driver distraction. Prior to that, he worked in product management at BMW Motorrad and human-machine interaction at the BMW Group. He received a Master of Science in Psychology from Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich in 2013 and received his Doctorate in 2016 at Chemnitz University of Technology on the topic of trust in automation.

Akos Kriston has 15+ years of experience in the development and testing of future vehicles and their technologies. He worked in academia, private and in the regulatory sector. He has practical experience in predictive and prescriptive data science.  He works for the European Commission Joint Research Centre on the safety market surveillance of road vehicles. He is also involved in the international regulation of the safety of autonomous and electric vehicles at UN ECE and national levels. He has 50+ publications and reports, 4 patent applications or patents and 23+ conference presentations.

Xiaoying Li is the founder and CEO of Digauto Automobile Technology Co., Ltd, which located in Shanghai of HQs and in Zhejiang of the ADAS proving ground, in Jiangsu of indoor test center. Digauto is the pioneer and driver in China on ADAS/AD testing, offers complete solution from test tools to service and ICV test license. Before Digauto Xiaoying Li worked in Kistler, Corrsys-Datron as the expert and chief representitive of vehicle dynamics. She graduated from Shanghai University of MBA and international trade and is a PhD candidate in Industry Economics at CASS (China Academy of Social Sciences).

Henrik Liers studied Mechanical Engineering at the TU Dresden and worked in the GIDAS investigation team for four years. After graduating in 2006 he became a research assistant and in 2010 Head of the Data Analysis department at VUFO (Traffic Accident Research Institute at  the TU Dresden). He was responsible for national and international studies in the field of traffic and vehicle safety. The focus of his studies was on accident analysis for passive safety systems and VRU, benefit estimations of active safety systems and biomechanics. Since 2017, Henrik Liers is the managing director of the VUFO. He is a member of several working groups and since 2013, he is a lecturer at the Dresden International University (DIU) in the course “Vehicle Safety and accident research”.

Becky Mueller is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in biomechanics.  She worked briefly as a contractor to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2009-2010 on projects related to future car safety regulations and prototype dummies. She joined the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in 2010 and is currently a Senior Research Engineer. She has worked on crashworthiness and biomechanics projects including small overlap, THOR and WorldSID dummies, passenger-side small overlap, brain injury assessment and pedestrian injuries. Her current focus is developing a new side impact crash test.

Adriano Palao is an Automotive Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the Vehicle Testing and Validation domain. As a Technical Manager for ADAS & AD at Euro NCAP, he steers the many Working Groups related to Active Safety into developing ever-increasing requirements towards promoting enhanced vehicle safety.

Volker Sander has been head of the Vehicle Safety Department of ADAC, which includes active safety, passive safety and accident research, since 2010. Before that, from 1999-2007 he was in charge of the construction of ADAC’s crash test lab as a team manager. From 2007-2010 he led the Passive Safety Department of ADAC. At Euro NCAP he is a member of the Board of Directors and chairman of the frontal impact working group. In addition to that he is member of the side impact working group, the technical working group and the ratings group of Euro NCAP. He is also lecturer for vehicle safety at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich.

After studying mechanical engineering and being awarded a doctorate at TU Darmstadt, Dr. Seiniger moved to the Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute (BASt) in 2009. Here Dr. Seiniger is involved in development and performance of tests for emergency braking systems and active safety for Euro NCAP and in developing and updating the respective legislatory framework (regulations). He was member of several Euro NCAP working groups and is Head of section “Active Vehicle Safety and Driver Assistance Systems”.

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 has worked as a scientist at the Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute (BASt), where since 2009 he has been Deputy Head of the Section Passive Vehicle Safety, Biomechanics. His main responsibilities are pedestrian protection (amongst others german representative of the GRSP Informal Group DPPS, 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.