Timo Woopen

After graduating from RWTH Aachen University in 2016 with an M.Sc. degree in Automotive Engineering, Timo Woopen joined the Automated Driving Department at the Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika) of RWTH Aachen University. His primary research interests include automated and connected vehicles, alongside infrastructural support. From 2018 to 2023, Timo Woopen served as the overall project manager for the UNICARagil project, pioneering modular architectures for agile and automated vehicle concepts. Since 2019, is head of the Vehicle Intelligence & Automated Driving division at ika. In 2021, he additionally assumed the role of CEO at Thinking Cars GmbH, a startup spawned from the UNICARagil project focusing on Open-Source-Software for functional components and middleware of autonomous vehicles. In 2025, he completed his doctoral degree with honors.