Gereon Meyer
Head of Department European and International Business Development @VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Department European and International Business Development @VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH
Berlin, DE
Lead of a staff department with companywide responsibility for acquisition, network building, consultancy and project development in European and international affairs- Member of the company’s New Business board• Head of the office of the eNOVA Strategy Board on the Future of the Automobile• Editor of the Springer Book Series Lecture Notes in Mobility• Member of the Advisory Board for the Research, Technology and Innovation Strategy in Mobility for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology • Secretary of the Working Group Transportation in the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration (EPoSS)• Chairman of the International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA) • Director of foresight and roadmap studies • Member of the European Commission’s Industrial Advisory Group for the European Green Cars Initiative and the Sustainable Transport Forum• Rapporteur and Evaluator for European and national funding agencies• Frequent Speaker and Moderator at Conferences and Workhops
EDUCATION
Freie Universität Berlin
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics
Freie Universität Berlin
Diplom-Physiker, Physics
ABOUT GEREON MEYER
Dr. Gereon Meyer is a physicist, author and innovation policy consultant. He is specialized in digital and green technologies enabling product innovation, and in the transformation of the automobile, urban mobility and the transportation system towards sustainability, resilience and user centricity. He is the Head of the Department European and International Business Development at VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH in Berlin, Germany. Gereon has curated 25 books and directed numerous future studies and roadmaps, including “Electrification of the Transport System” (2017) and “Connected and Automated Transport” (2019) of the Strategic Transport Research and Innovation Agenda (STRIA) issued by the European Commission. He has been the chairman of the International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications (AMAA) since 2009, and he serves as coordinator of the Working Group Transportation of the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration (EPoSS), the editor of the Springer book series Lecture Notes in Mobility and the co-chair of the Symposium on the Future of Transportation and the Role of Europe-U.S. Research Collaboration. He is a member of various expert panels, e.g. the board of the European association of innovation agencies (TAFTIE), the executive group of the Association for the EU-Partnership on Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM), the industry delegation of the EU-Partnership 2Zero, the European Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Alliance (ECAVA), the European advisory board of SAE International, and the editorial board of the World Electric Vehicle Journal. Gereon has led a number of projects funded by the EU, and is an expert for the Urban Innovative Actions and European Urban Initiative (EUI) of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). He is frequently assigned with roles as speaker, workshop facilitator and evaluator, and as columnist for the Tagesspiegel Background Verkehr & Smart Mobility,He earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the Freie Universität Berlin. Being a fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, he was a research associate at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (USA), and a visiting scientist at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, CA (USA) as well as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (USA), before joining VDI/VDE-IT in 2007. Gereon holds certificates in leadership as well as city governance, planning and design by the Universität St. Gallen (Switzerland) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), respectively.
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