Sandro Wartzack is a professor and full professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. After completing his studies in production technology in 1994, he conducted research as a research assistant in design technology and received his doctorate in 2000 with distinction. In the subsequent industrial activity in the automotive industry, he held various leadership positions, most recently as Head of Simulation and WIssensmanagement. In September, he returned to the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg as the Chair of Construction Technology, which he has been heading since. His research focuses on the large field of digital product development with a focus on artificial intelligence in product development, design assistance systems, tolerance simulation, and analysis with digital human models as well as machine elements and tribological layers. He is a member of the board of the Scientific Society for Product Development (WiGeP) and a member of the German Academy of Science and Technology (ACATECH), a specialist college of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the field of construction, machine elements, and product development. Furthermore, he is the scientific publisher of the journal Konstruktion, guest editor of the Design Science Journal, and is on the scientific committee of numerous scientific conferences.