Graz, Styria, Austria
Vehicle motion control specialist with more than 15 years of experience spanning advanced braking, integrated chassis control, and e-drivetrain related functions across the full automotive V-cycle. My background combines strong academic depth with industrial delivery. I began my career in multibody simulation and vehicle dynamics research, followed by a PhD focused on a proprietary vehicle sideslip angle estimation method for commercial vehicle stability control. Building on this foundation, I transitioned into series development in Germany, contributing to next-generation ABS control using rapid prototyping technologies and later leading ABS development activities. Today, I operate at the intersection of braking, stability, and integrated chassis systems, leading function development, verification and validation, and cross-domain integration activities. My work emphasizes robust, production-ready control solutions aligned with the software-defined vehicle paradigm, with growing focus on AI-assisted development methods and advanced state estimation. Technically, I have covered nearly the full stack of vehicle motion control development, including: • ABS / stability control algorithms • Vehicle state and sideslip estimation • Integrated chassis control functions • e-drivetrain related motion control • Rapid prototyping and V-cycle validation • Low-µ and winter test correlation I strongly value tight correlation between simulation and real vehicle behavior and regularly participate in vehicle test campaigns to validate control performance under critical conditions. I am particularly interested in the future convergence of brake-by-wire, fail-operational chassis control, and software-defined vehicle architectures.
System engineering, function design, E/E and software architecture specification for electric driveline related vehicle motion control functions (electric Torque Vectoring, electric All Wheel Drive, and electric Traction Control System) and for semi active suspension control. Expert for Electromechanical Brake systems. Early involved project manager and customer contact in field of vehicle motion control.
ABS core and application function development lead engineer and team leader. Working with Brake-by-Wire systems for commercial vehicles in series projects. 10 year anniversary of wintertesting in Arjeplog, Sweden with more than 50 weeks test testing. Performace evaluation customer and internal workshops, development and appplication test support. Covering fields of E/E architecture, FuSA, function architecture design, SIL and MIL testing or ASPICE and ISO26262 related to ASIL-D ABS function development. Participating to agile project management and even as active stakeholder. Trained "coach" leader of 10+ team members. Supporting university and PhD students with diploma work and science competition study mentoring and research consulting.
Lead engineer for ABS system function (from raw wheel speed filtering to pneumatic actuator control) development for commercial vehicle traditional and Brake-by-Wire pneumatic systems. Vehicle testing and customer performance workshops in Boxberg and Arjeplog. Integrating ASPICE and ISO 26262 conformity into model based function development. Supporting safety department, improving E/E architecture conditions for ABS functionality. Establishing extensive offline function development test enviroment with respect to vehicle measurement methods.
Lead engineer for working out next generation ABS algorithm for commercial vehicle Brake-by-Wire system. Releasing first SOP to European OEM in 2015. Intensive vehicle testing in Boxberg, Idiada, Arjeplog. Development with dSpace Autobox rapid-prototyping environment. Model based function development in Matlab Simulink and Stateflow. Setting up company internal principles for big size Matlab modeling structure. Code generation from Matlab model. Participating to Mathworks pioneer cooperation to improve model based code generation. Establishing extensive offline function development test enviroment with respect to vehicle measurement methods. Working out next generation company internal HIL environment's vehicle simulation model.
Theme: Sideslip estimation based commercial vehicle stability control Vehicle modeling with self developed Multibody-System simulation environment built up in Matlab Simulink, including self developed brush-tpe tire model. Publising university textbook for describing establishment of MBS vehicle modeling. Identification, verification and validation of model parameters, performing vehicle measurements. Researching control techniques for vehicle dynamics control, creating sideslip estimation algorithm for commercial vehicles. Creating commercial vehicle stability control based on sideslip estimation algorithm - including vehicle testing.
Building up commercial vehicle model fleet in SimPack Multi-Body-Simulation environment for vehicle dynamics simulation. Identification, verification and validation of vehicle simulation model structure and parameters. Writing diploma work and three scientific student competition studies (1st and 2nd place at university competition, 2nd place at national competition) with vehicle stability control supported by Steer-by-Wire and Rear-Wheel-Steering in focus.