Jan Christoph Menken Email & Phone Number

Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg, Deutschland

Hamburg, Deutschland

Ingolstadt

• Interdisciplinary project management for electrified and hybrid vehicles in the fields of body structure, exteriors, interiors, thermal management and vehicle safety• Modular platform management for tapping synergies within the Volkswagen Group• Project lead and coordination of cross-functional/divisional project teams developing business cases and reporting to top-executives• Reporting to decision-making bodies

Ingolstadt, Germany

setting up test benches and prototype cars, development and manufacturing of complex prototype components, prototype testing under extreme conditionslong-term R&D project developing a novel thermal management system for electrified vehicles during the entire development cycle including budgeting, planning, communication, management of various engineering services providers, recruiting of student-interns

Ingolstadt

1D-simulation of thermal components and systems, development of evaluation criteria and use cases, setting up test benches and prototype cars, development and manufacturing of complex prototype components, prototype testing under extreme conditionslong-term R&D project developing a novel thermal management system for electrified vehicles during the entire development cycle including budgeting, planning, communication, management of various engineering services providers, recruiting of student-interns

Puebla De Zaragoza Und Umgebung, Mexiko

Project management within the R&D division and inter-divisional support during the start of production

Dr.-Ing. (Phd), Mechanical Engineering, Thermodynamics

Title of the PhD thesis: “Thermal Management in a Battery Electric Vehicle Using Vapour-Compression Refrigeration with a Secondary Loop.

Diplom-Ingenieur, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Focus on Thermodynamics, Control Systems, Numerics

Exchange Program With The Tu Braunschweig, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Student Research Project “Vision Only Flight Control for a Small Quadrotor Helicopter”