Designated Body and Notified Body expert works

Main activities include:Study on cold chain transport (June 2020 – Sept 2020) for Wascosa AG – Analysis of the European cold supply chain market as a whole with focus on potential of railways, technological comparison of existing reefer container wagon solutionsPreliminary project of Berlin University Excellence: Social Cohesion (Nov 2019 – June 2020) – Zero-Emission Beer als Modell für nachhaltige Transportketten – Transdisciplinary approach for the development of the freight rail sector on the example of sustainable transport of beverages – Project managementAssets4Rail (June 2019 – Dec 2019) – Shift2Rail European Research Project – Technology assessment for the monitoring of transversal wheel-rail contact positionTeaching activity (April 2019 – June 2019) – Rail vehicle technology II (Schienenfahrzeugtechnik II)Study on innovation funding for rail freight (Jan 2019 – June 2019) with Fraunhofer ISI – BMVI Project (Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure) – Ausgestastaltung eines Förderprogramms für innovative Technologien und Prozesse im Schienengüterverkehr – Analysis of the technology, implementation possibility and funding of digitalization, EP-brake and automatic coupler in the rail freight industryStudy on running resistance (June 2018 – Feb 2019) for SBB Cargo – Assessment of running resistance optimization of freight wagonsDynafreight (Jan 2017 – June 2018) – Shift2Rail European Research Project – Multibody modelling and simulations of heavy-haul locomotives with radial steering bogiesInnovativer Güterwagen (Jan 2017 – Feb 2018) – BMVI Project with DB Cargo and VTG – Construction of bogie skirts for various freight wagons – project managementExtended work on project proposals– Shift2Rail proposalsVIBRALIS (2020) – New technologies for auralisation and visualisation of noise and vibrationLOCOS4RAIL (2019) – Low life cycle cost running gear for rail vehiclesNEXT-GEAR (2017) – NEXT generation running GEAR concept

Estimation of wheel-rail friction at vehicle certification

Participation in the modernization of electronic course contents

Participation in teaching of the Vehicle Dynamics and Drive Techniques course

Brake distance pre-calculations for on-track experimentsBachelor Thesis Research – Examination of the effects of the brake disc-pad relative position with vehicle dynamical simulations