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Heads Published: February 13th, 2023

13.02.23_Personality

Navid Samadi took up the post of Chief Engineer Chassis Global at Huawei in Munich in January. At the tech group’s local Automotive Engineering Laboratory, Samadi is responsible for R&D of mechatronic chassis systems, including system architecture, software, electronic hardware, mechanics, and system verification.Is something changing in your organization? Let us know at heads@table.media!

Heads Published: February 12th, 2023

Yolande Kyoni – energy lobbyist and linguistic genius

Yolande Kyoni ended up in energy policy by chance. She originally studied conference interpreting and international development in Vienna and Porto. But her interest in Europe was great and so, after a first internship in Brussels in 2008, she took another internship at the EU Parliament in 2013, which she found so intriguing that she […]

Heads Published: February 10th, 2023

David Wortmann – between worlds

Few moments shaped David Wortmann’s career as much as his meeting with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2004. At the time, Wortmann was a research assistant to Hermann Scheer, an SPD member of the Bundestag. Among other things, the team was working on the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). Then he received an invitation from the […]

Heads Published: February 10th, 2023

10.02.2023_Personalien

Laurie Chen has joined Reuters as a China correspondent in Beijing. The journalist last wrote for AFP and before that for the South China Morning Post.Allen Wang becomes General Manager China at laboratory equipment manufacturer H.E.L. Group. He takes over the post from Qing Chen. Previously, Wang held the post of Sales Manager and Applications […]

Heads Published: February 9th, 2023

09.02.2023_Personalien

Klaus Buechele has been the new Senior Manager for Quality Assurance for Audi at FAW-Volkswagen in Changchun since the beginning of the month. Buechele was previously Head of Mobility Service at Audi AG in Neckarsulm. Zhang Yuzhuo is the new party secretary of the State Council’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, replacing Hao Peng. […]

Heads Published: February 9th, 2023

Marc Matten – understanding China’s present through its past

Marc Matten’s interest in China began with a visit to a flea market in the 1990s. While still in school, he stumbled across a book by Edgar Snow, the US journalist who recorded his encounter with Mao Zedong in the world-famous bestseller “Red Star Over China”. Matten was fascinated. “A little later, when our city […]

Heads Published: February 8th, 2023

Florian Rothenberg – emissions trading expert

During the phone call, Florian Rothenberg is wrapped in a wool blanket. The energy crisis does not only concern him in his profession – he is an emissions trading analyst at the information service Independent Commodity Intelligence Services (ICIS) in Karlsruhe. The high energy prices are also an issue for him in his private life: […]

Heads Published: February 8th, 2023

08.02.23_Personalien_

Alena Skrancova has been Director Of Logistics at Bosch Powertrain Solutions Asia Pacific since January. Educated in Freiburg and Pilsen, the trained logistics manager previously worked for Bosch in Romania. Her new workplace is in Shanghai.Nong Rong, formerly Chinese ambassador to Pakistan, has been appointed deputy foreign minister, China’s State Council announced Tuesday. Prior to […]

Heads Published: February 8th, 2023

He Jiankui – the return of the clone researcher

For three years, Chinese scientist He Jiankui was in prison for creating the world’s first genetically engineered babies. After his release in April 2022, he has now returned in a remarkable interview with the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post. Some four years after their birth, he explained, the three children were doing well. […]

Heads Published: February 7th, 2023

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Patrick Fischer, responsible for research and development at the automotive supplier Hoerbiger Division Automotive China, will leave the People’s Republic at the end of February and return to Germany. According to his own information, he will join a US mechanical engineering group as head of development of its European division.Is something changing in your organization? […]