Adrian Schäfer studied Mechanical Engineering for his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Stuttgart until 2021. Since then, he has been with the Institute of Electrical Energy Conversion, pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The thermal, magnetic, and multi-material design of axial flux machines belongs to his special field of interest. At the fundamental level, he conducts research in the area of magnetic equivalent circuits, magnetic hysteresis, and the modeling of eddy currents.