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Prof. Dr. Joeri Van Mierlo is a key player in the Electromobility scene. He is professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, one of the top universities in this field. Prof. Dr. ir. Joeri Van Mierlo leads the MOBI – Mobility, Logistics and automotive technology research centre (https://mobi.vub.ac.be). A multidisciplinary and growing team of over 100 staff members. Prof. Van Mierlo was visiting professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (2012). He is expert in the field of Electric and Hybrid vehicles (batteries, power converters, energy management simulations) as well as to the environmental and economical comparison of vehicles with different drive trains and fuels (LCA, TCO). He is editor in chief of the World Electric Vehicle Journal and the author of more than 500 scientific publications. "Highly Cited Researcher 2023” award from Clarivate - Web of Science.

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Aymeric Rousseau is the Transportation Program Director at Argonne National Laboratory. He received his engineering diploma at the Industrial System Engineering School in La Rochelle, France in 1997 and an Executive MBA at Chicago Booth in 2019. For the past 25 years, he has been evaluating the impact of advanced vehicle and transportation technologies from a mobility and energy point of view including the development of Autonomie (vehicle system simulation), RoadRunner (connected and automated vehicle and powertrain control) and POLARIS (large-scale transportation system simulation). His responsibilities include business development for government offices and programs and state agencies including U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Transportation section, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and state and local organizations that represent transportation systems and systems management, and private industry in the transportation and mobility segments. In addition to leading numerous projects for private companies and US Department of Energy, Aymeric Rousseau has been providing vehicle energy consumption analysis for the US DOT NHTSA and has authored or co-authored more than 250 papers related to transportation technologies.

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Prof. Dr. Peter Van den Bossche promoted in Engineering Sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on a thesis “The Electric vehicle, raising the standards”. He is currently a lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. For more than 15 years, he is active in several international standardization committees, currently acting as Secretary of IEC TC69. He has been closely involved in electric vehicle research and demonstration programmes in collaboration with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the international associations AVERE and CITELEC, and is now coordinating research projects on battery modelling, always observing the link to standardization development in the field.

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Massimiliano Gobbi is full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico. di Milano. He was awarded a master degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 (with honors) and Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics in 1998. He was a visiting scholar at the Vehicle Dynamics Lab at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California Berkeley in 1998. More than 250 technical papers have been published. He is author of seven international patents and three books. Areas of interest: road vehicles engineering, optimization of complex systems, mechatronics.

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Genevieve Cullen has led the Electric Drive Transportation Association, the Washington, DC based cross-industry trade association promoting the electrification of transportation, as President since 2015. She previously served as Vice President, directing the organization’s policy and advocacy efforts. Prior to joining EDTA, Genevieve provided energy policy counsel in the Executive and Legislative Branches, including serving as Energy Counsel to Senator Evan Bayh (DIN). In these capacities, she developed and promoted policy solutions in diverse issue areas, including climate change and air quality, transportation emissions, energy efficiency and utility regulation. Genevieve Cullen has substantial experience as an advocate for private sector initiatives, with an emphasis on advanced technology solutions to energy and environmental challenges.