Filip Dörge manages the innovation team and portfolio of Bosal Emission Control Systems, supporting the development of new technologies and opportunities in the field of exhaust systems and beyond.

Filip holds a Master of Science degree in electro-mechanical engineering from the Free University of Brussels. He joined Bosal 20 years ago, where he also has global responsibilities in acoustical engineering and in intellectual property rights.

Dr. Rubino holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata (1996), a Master of Applied Science from the University of Toronto (1999) and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Imperial College London (2003).

She has more than 15 years experience in the field of aftertreatment research and development, PN emissions measurements with focus on ultra-fine and nanoparticle emissions, PN PEMS, and emissions legislation. She has working experience with OEM, suppliers as well as Universities and European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). She worked as a research assistant at the University of Toronto and at Imperial College, as a development engineer at Johnson Matthey Royston, UK (2003-2005), as a scientific officer at the European Commission JRC (2005-2008), as a corporate scientist at Sensors (2009-2011), as a system engineer at Corning GmbH (2011-2013), and since 2013 she works as lead technical expert aftertreatment systems GPF at GPS, Adam Opel AG.

She has international expertise in projects management, PN emissions and aftertreatment R&D, emissions legislation, PEMS, and international publications and patents.

Nick founded Emissions Analytics in 2011 in order to understand real-world fuel economy and emissions from vehicles. The concept was to find a way to characterise vehicles in a relatively short test and be able to conduct a large number of comparable tests. The solution was to use portable emissions measurement systems to source real on-road raw data efficiently across many vehicles.

This database is now a platform for analysing and modelling this data, from which are created the EQUA Air Quality Index in Europe and Real MPG in the USA, as well as extensive testing of heavy and light duty commercial vehicles. Nick is a specialist in data analytics, particularly in the automotive market, through his prior work at Oxford Indices Ltd, as a data specialist, United Business plc, and Haymarket Media Group.

He is a graduate of the University of Oxford, with an MA in philosophy, politics and economics.

Jesse Paegle has worked for 20 years within the automotive industry. Presently, he is working at Aperam within global technical business development. His last experience before joining Aperam included independent consulting for the automotive market for new material and applications. He worked with the Gestamp group and was responsible for R&D in Mercosul. He worked in AHSS development in Mercosur for new platforms at ARCELORMITTAL group. He is also responsible for customer qualifications working with all OEM’s. RENAULT NISSAN and working on all automotive supply chain (assembly, paint shop, body shop, and stamping shop). Jesse’s actual responsibilities include: responsible for new developments and applications of stainless steel in the automotive industry and linking future worldwide trends to Aperam innovative developments.

Wico has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and received his Ph.D. in the field of integrated optics in 2007 from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He joined Sensata Technologies in 2007 as a design engineer developing novel sensing technologies for exhaust sensors related to on board diagnostics. In the next role as a engineering manager, Wico lead a group of engineers responsible for combustion pressure, common rail/GDI, and brake pressure sensing.

In 2016, Wico joined the marketing team with global responsibility for Sensata’s combustion and exhaust sensor strategy. The portfolio consists of temperature and pressure sensors over the whole exhaust temperature and pressure span.

Mr. Darding is based in Katcon’s Luxembourg Tech Center and is focused on gasoline product engineering and development. Euro 6d emissions and beyond, Gasoline Particle Filter technologies are some of his main responsibilities. Previously, he has worked on diverse diesel and gasoline engine development projects that are now in production.

His field of influence within Katcon includes international projects with applications in North America, Europe, South Africa and Asia, both for exhaust and emissions, from acoustics to emissions and with applications that range from recreational vehicles (ATV) to heavy duty on and off-road. Mr. Darding has been closely involved in all phases of product development, from concept to implementation and problem resolution, which gives him a unique perspective in achieving pragmatic realization of theoretical and academic concepts.

Mr. Darding holds a degree in mechanical engineering from ESTACA Paris (Ecole Supérieure des Techniques Aéronautiques et de Construction Automobile). He has a passion for all things related to engines and vehicles, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

Jean studied at the Chimie Paris Tech, which he graduated from in 2003. He followed his education by working in IFP Energies Nouvelles as a fuel and lubricants engineer.

Jean joined TE in 2008, taking the position of product manager in the measurement specialties division. In 2012, he was promoted to fluid sensors senior expert. Since 2014, he is an R&D manager for sensors solutions.

Moritz Frobenius earned a Diploma and a Doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the technical university of Munich.

Since 1998, he worked on the development of numerical methods for the simulation of complex multiphase flows. He joined AVL in 2004 as a simulation engineer focusing in combustion and emission prediction. Later he became team leader of the Munich-based simulation team, before taking over responsibility for the Advanced Simulation Technologies Business in Germany.

Lidia Castoldi graduated in industrial chemistry at the University of Milan, Italy in 1998. She got her post-degree Master’s in polymers science in 2001 and her Ph.D. degree in industrial chemistry and chemical engineering in 2004 at Politecnico of Milan, having written a dissertation titled ‘Pt-Ba/ Al2O3 NOx storage-reduction catalysts: characterization and activity.’

Since 2005, she holds an academic position as an assistant professor in catalysis and chemical reaction engineering topics at Politecnico of Milan, Italy. In 2015, she became associate professor in the department of energy at Politecnico of Milan, Italy, working on heterogeneous catalysis mainly devoted to environmental problems. Her research activity is focused on NOx removal from diesel and lean exhausts, associated or not with soot combustion.

Recently, attention moves to the formation and/or decomposition of N2O during NOx removal. Her activity is documented by more than 50 publications on international scientific journals (ISI/Scopus; h-index 22) and of several communications at congresses.

After obtaining a Diplome de l’Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech, and a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Adrien Mann joined Exa Corporation’s aero-acoustics application management team in San Francisco, California.

Adrien leads the climate control, fan noise, and exhaust/muffler noise application management, as well as the development of flow-induced noise sources detection techniques and software tools for aero-acoustics applications, such as HVAC noise, wind noise, and fan noise. Adrien is also the technical reference at Exa for absorbing material modeling with PowerFLOW.

Dirk Bleicker started his career as an electronic engineer in 1996 in the field of tank truck applications.

He entered the exhaust aftertreatment business in 2001 and developed SCR dosing systems for Euro IV/V trucks for Daimler and Euro VI trucks for Volvo/Renault. During this time, he held positions as testing manager and later as head of R&D.

Today, Dirk is responsible for R&D at CPK Automotive in Muenster. He takes care of developing sustainable products that bring added values for the users.