My areas of expertise are twofold; Validation and Tribology. Within validation, I led an Agile team at AVL for 3 years, responsible for planning, reporting and coaching in design validation, primarily of electrified drivelines and transmissions, for projects from concept to SOP. This included reliability engineering and duty cycle generation. Currently, I assess and support technical project milestone delivery and plan new project structures for activities relating to validation, verification, reliability and testing of transmissions and e-axles. Through this, I have advised top automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers on methodologies for DVP reduction and provided training as an AVL expert in this topic. My academic background is in tribology with a focus on the lubricant-surface systems at the interface of rolling and sliding contacts. My work to date has followed a combined numerical and experimental approach, developing novel hydrodynamic and boundary friction models. I have published and presented my research in leading academic journals and at top international conferences, both in my academic background and while responsible for departmental R&D at AVL. I have over 50 published works, read more than 24,000 times.