Ted Straten graduated from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands with a master’s in mechanical engineering, specialising in combustion engines. Ted started his career developing medium-speed diesel engines for ship propulsion and power plants at Stork-Wärtsilä Diesel in the Netherlands. He continued in advanced engineering at DAF Trucks in the Netherlands within the engine development depart­ment and subsequently led the development team for engine emission control systems for European and North American applications. Today at BOSAL in Belgium, he is the Vice President of Global Sales.

Thomas Koerfer holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Aachen (RWTH Aachen). He has more than 24 years of professional experience in diesel engine development in several positions. In October 2014, he was promoted to group vice president of passenger car diesel engines at FEV GmbH.

Dr. Cedric Rouaud began his professional career in 2000 at Groupe Renault as a re­search engineer, while fulfilling his doctorate diploma in the University of Poitiers. Over­all, he spent eight years at Groupe Renault working as a research engineer and project leader. In 2008, he joined Ricardo as a principal engineer responsible for thermal management and waste heat recovery systems development. Since 2011, he has been a chief engineer in the engine product group of Ricardo. He is also a technical expert in thermal management and waste heat recovery systems for conventional and electrified powertrain in vehicles. During his career, he has managed and developed many proj­ects, including: development of technologies for reducing CO2 emissions in gasoline and diesel engines, thermal management of hybrid electric vehicles, development of exhaust heat recovery systems for passenger cars, HDD, railway, thermo-hydraulic simulations, thermal management of twin-turbocharged gasoline and diesel engines, simulations and tests, powertrain and vehicle tests.

Carloandrea Malvicino, who graduated in physics at the University of Turin, spent 25 years at Centro Ricerche Fiat on thermal system innovation and technologies to improve the efficiency of automotive systems. He is now lead­ing the CO2 emissions reduction strategies at the Department of the Vehicle Safety and Regulation Compliance of FCA Italy S.p.A. and is also co-chair of the ACEA’s eco innovation task force. In addition, Carloandrea is a leading au­thor in the Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heat Pumps Technical Options Committee (RTOC) of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and author of several international patents papers in the domain of thermal systems and fuel consumption and CO2 emission reduction.

Robert Dorner completed his PhD in 2006 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in conjunction with University College London. After that he moved to Lehigh Univer­sity to work on converting bio-syngas to methanol in collaboration with the company Enerkem. Subsequently, he worked at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., where he developed catalysts converting CO2 to value-added hydrocarbons. Af­ter having worked in R&D developing air protection technologies at Nalco/Ecolab, in 2012 he moved to BASF, where he is now working as a senior application engineer/ chemist in the field of mobile emission control (heavy duty diesel), supporting OEMs to meet regulations with suitable aftertreatment systems. He is the author of several papers and patents in the field of catalysis.

Tue Johannessen holds a PhD degree in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). As one of the inventors of the core technology, he co-founded Amminex Emissions Technology A/S in 2005. Apart from working more than 10 years in the automotive emis­sions control segment, his experience ranges from areas such as catalysis, chemical processes and computational fluid dynamics to IP, strategy and business development.

Carlo Locci graduated in mechanical engineering in 2009. He went to Paris in 2010 to carry out a PhD on the numerical simulation of flameless com­bustion at the French Institute of Petroleum. In 2014, he extended his experience in academia with a postdoc at the French National Scientific Research Center for a project in collaboration with Solvay. Since October 2015, he’s been working for Siemens PLM as an application specialist for powertrain and aftertreatment.

Sergio Bocos has degrees in industrial engineering specialised in ener­gies and mechanics from the University of Valladolid (Spain) and ENSAM (France). A passionate professional in the automotive industry, he has been an exhaust systems product engineer for Groupe Renault since 2014. Accomplishments that he feels the proudest of include the industrialisation of the first GPF on the Renault lineup, the introduction of turbo ceramic bearings for sporty engines in Renault and the democratisation of direct insulation exhausts for gasoline and diesel exhausts.

Thomas Wolff studied physics at the Philipps University of Marburg and received his PhD in 1994 in polymer physics. He started his career at Helsa Automotive working on new activated carbon filter products. From 2008 to 2011, he was with AFT and Notox working on SiC DPFs and in 2011 he took over the development of substrates and catalysts at Dinex. Since 2014 he has been responsible for innovation and R&D for the whole of Dinex.

Marco Moser studied computational engineering science at TU Berlin. He was in charge of the component test bench for heat exchangers at TU Berlin (Division for Combustion Engines) between 2007 and 2011. Since the be­ginning of 2011, he has been working for IAV with a focus on OBD function development for exhaust gas treatment. His specialisations lie in the fields of SCR OBD, sensor diagnosis and robustness analysis. His current focus is on machine-learned NOx models and artificial intelligence for SCR OBD.

Petrica Dulgheru joined BOSAL ECS in 2014 as an emissions engineer working on emissions related innovations. Previously, he worked as a post­doctoral researcher in the Universite libre de Bruxelles with Prof. Norbert Kruse studying performance and durability of automotive exhaust cata­lysts. Before that, he worked briefly for the European Commission in DG Enterprise (2010) and as a teaching assistant in University College Dublin (2007-2011). Petrica received his bachelor’s in chemistry from University of Bucharest (2006) and a PhD in heterogeneous catalysis from University College Dublin (2011).