Simon Selbach Simon Selbach

“Salli” guys! My Name is Simon Selbach, I am 27 years old and writing currently my Master Thesis in the Hofer eMobility GmbH in Würzburg, Germany. Originally I come from Lauchringen situated in the beautiful Hochrhein/ Black Forrest region at the Swiss border. I did my Bachelor of Engineering degree at the University of Applied Science Weihenstephan-Triesdorf in the subject “Technologies Renewable Energies”. During the Bachelor study, I did a practical semester abroad (New Zealand), at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in the field of solar heating and cooling, working for the Belgian solar pioneer Eric Jansseune. For my 14th birthday, my grandpa gave me the book “Bionik” (by Kurt Blüchel) as a present. Well, at that age, I could not do anything with it…but the things quickly changed during my bachelor. During my time at FH Weihenstephan-Triesdorf I had the subject “Bionics” which totally fascinated me whereupon I took out the book again. Great decision! After my Bachelor degree I started then the fascinating Master Degree of “Biomimetics in Energy Systems” at the Carinthia University of Applied Science in Villach. The field of renewable energies combined with the “big teacher” nature is for me the key to a new and green future. In my opinion the people concentrated too much on their “state-of-the-art” technologies in the past, where nature already solved many problems we have trouble with in a much more efficient way- and mostly millions of years ago! During my studies I collected a lot of knowledge in thermodynamics and the energy treatment in nature. Therefore I am writing currently my Master Thesis about a nature inspired powertrain cooling system for electric vehicles. Always remember: “Delve into nature means delve into future!” ;)