Jan Oellerich is a mechanical engineer and currently a post-doctoral researcher and group leader of the Department for "Mechatronic Systems and Components" at the Institute for Material Handling and Logistics (IFL) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. He studied mechanical and process engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany) and completed his doctoral thesis at KIT in 2021. His current research activities mainly cover nonlinear optimization, structural and topology optimization, development of algorithms and mechanical design of supporting structures for application in material handling systems.