Bernhard Brandstätter studied Electrical Engineering in Graz, Austria, and Genoa, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and his venia docendi from Graz University of Technology in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2002 to 2005, he was engaged in a major Austrian research project on automotive measurement. From 2005 to 2014, he served as Research Coordinator and CTO of ELIN Motoren GmbH. In 2014, he joined VIRTUAL VEHICLE Research Center, heading the department “Energy Management and Human Centric Systems” as well as the business unit “Efficiency and Comfort” and acquiring and coordinating several European projects. He is Author or Co-author of more than 100 scientific papers in the fields of optimization, field numerics, electrical machines, and inverse problems.