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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Sándor Vajna was Full Professor of the Chair of Information Technologies in Mechanical Engineering at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg until 2017. Prior to this, he worked for 12 years in industry in IPD, Design Methodology, CAx, and CIM / PLM. He was awarded prices from international institutions. Research areas include IPD and its further development Integrated Design Engineering (IDE), the Autogenetic Design Theory (creating products applying procedures and approaches from biological evolution), and Dynamic Process Navigation. Research work has been performed in close co-operation with industry. In education, he has been teaching IPD, IDE, CAx, and Process Management in several universities. Students are taught in interdisciplinary, holistic, project-driven ways. Vajna is editor of two book series, has published 14 books, and > 350 publications, is founding member of the Design Society and member of further scientific organizations.

Jonathan C. Borg graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Malta in 1989 and an M.Sc. (1993) and a Ph.D. in concurrent product design (1999), both from the University of Strathclyde (UK). In 1990 he was awarded a one month Commonwealth scholarship to participate in a CAD/CAM course held at Hong Kong Polytechnic, HK. Between 2001-2012, he was Head of Department during which time he lead the setting up of the MSC in IPD. Since 2002, he has been regularly appointed by the EC's DG Research as both expert evaluator and project reviewer for various projects related to ICT in Design & Manufacturing and also in Research for SMEs. In 2003, he received a Medal of Appreciation from the Institution of Engineering Designers at the House of Commons, London. Prof. Borg has held various official Government board appointments including the Malta Council for Science & Technology & Malta's Engineering Board. Prof. Borg leads the Concurrent Engineering Resarch Unit (CERU) at the University of Malta. Between October 2012 and September 2014, he carried out a two year sabbatical period with substantial time spent in industry in two multi-national firms that allowed him to explore the complexities of product development in practice.

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Kristin Paetzold studied mechanical engineering at the technical university in Chemnitz and business administration at the Fernuniversity Hagen. During the period 2000 – 2009 she worked at the Institute of Engineering Design of the University Erlangen-Nürnberg as a scientific employee. In 2003, she obtained a doctorate in the field of developing and dimensioning of thermoplastic gear units. As from 2004, she worked as chief engineer at the Institute of Engineering Design of the University Erlangen-Nürnberg. As from April 2009, she has been appointed Professor for Technical Product Development at the Universität der Bundeswehr München. Of relevance to candidates of this Summer School is that her research interest cover the organisation of data- and information-flows in product development to support design processes based on novel product models; Simulation Data Management and Systems Engineering.

Professor Benoît Eynard is currently the leader of Integrated Product-Process Engineering team of FRE UTC/CNRS 2012 Roberval research institute at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne – UTC, France. In 2007, he has joined UTC as a Full Professor for leading the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering until 2012. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the Université de Technologie de Troyes where he managed the MSc program on Information Technology for Mechanical Engineering. Since 2013, he is general chairman of the academic group of the French Association of Mechanical Engineering on Factories of the Future: integrated design and advanced manufacturing also known as S-mart group (formerly AIP-PRIMECA network). He is also member of the IFIP working group 5.1. dealing with “Global Product development for the whole life-cycle” and of the Design Society where he currently leads the special interest group on “Design Methods for Cyber-Physical Systems”. In 1999, he obtained his PhD on Computer-Integrated Manufacturing from the University of Bordeaux. Now, he is a recognised researcher in product lifecycle management, collaborative design, systems engineering, mechatronic design, digital factory, manufacturing process management, eco-design and sustainable manufacturing. He has published over 70 papers of international journals and 200 international conferences. He also has been guest editor for 15 journal special issues and academic books.

Julie Stal-Le Cardinal is professor in the Industrial Engineering Laboratory (LGI) at CentraleSupélec, France. Her research interest is to discover new methodologies of design and management in an industrial context. She works on team diversity and project management. She coaches project managers in companies concerning the management of their project and the choice of actors in teams. Within the LGI, she is in charge of two research groups: one about Industrial Engineering & Healthcare (GIM’S) and one about Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0. After a Mechanical Engineer Degree (UTC, France), she obtained a Master Degree in Industrial Engineering Systems, from ECP, and her PhD Thesis delivers A Study of Dysfunctions within the Decision Making Process. Particular Focus on the Choice of Actor. Prof. Julie Stal-Le Cardinal is now Head of Enterprise Science Department at CentraleSupélec, Paris.