Andreas started his career at German Aerospace Center in 2007 as computer scientist with focus on geodata processing for driving simulators and test vehicles. Later, he led the corresponding teams and managed various industry and EU research projects while contributing to the development of OpenDRIVE as well as to Road2Simulation guidelines. He received his PhD on integrated use of geodatabases. Since 2018 he worked at Volkswagen Group IT as Product Owner on backend integration for Volkswagen’s electric vehicle platform. Since 2021, he works as Engineering Program Manager for Operational Design Domain for Self-Driving Systems at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.