The project is guided by Prof. Dr. –Ing. Gernot Spiegelberg, a Rudolf-Diesel-Industry Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technische Universität München and the leader of the E-mobility initiative in SIEMENS Corporate Technology. Gernot Spiegelberg did his doctorate at the TU Karlsruhe, followed by a lectureship for “Intelligent Automotive Systems” at TU Budapest in 2004. For this, he was awarded the Honorary Professorship.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Alois Knoll is a member of the German Society for Computer, IEEE and the highly-esteemed ISTAG board, an advisory group which consults the European Commission on its overall strategy for Information and Communication Technologies research and development. His research interests include cognitive, medical and sensor-based robotics, multi-agent systems, data fusion, adaptive systems and multimedia information retrieval.

Prof. Lienkamp has focuses his research on new vehicle concepts in the scope of the electromobility initiative and the integration of broad spectrum of research areas in the automotive field. The emphasis is placed on the development and regulation of the vehicle’s underbody, driver assistance systems, humanmachine interface, accident prevention and investigation as well as the processes supporting the whole development process.

The vehicle’s design is based on the work of Prof. Luigi Colani, the famous German artist who began his well known work in the area of automotive design. Prof. Colani’s ideas strive to learn from the nature, resulting in profoundly bio-dynamic shapes, perfectly adapted to the environment.