M-FIVE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Scientific Consultant / Legal Specialist
Cornelia Emmerich LL.M. (LLS) is working at M-Five (staff #4) since October 2016 starting in April 2021 primarily as a legal expert. She studied law in the metropolitan area Erlangen Nuremberg where she finished her education (legal clerkship) with the 2. state examination. The focus was on international Private and European Law. Subsequently, she worked as a lawyer (partly also as a syndic at an SME) and in parallel completed a master at the Loyola Law School, Bologna in American and international (Trade-) Law.
Job Titles:
- Economic Consultant / Policy Analyst
- Economic Consultant at M - Five Mobility
Daniel Berthold has been working as an economic consultant at M-Five Mobility, Futures, Innovation, Economics since summer 2017. He studied economics and Southeast Asian studies in Singapore (BA with Honours) as well as international economics and governance in Bayreuth (MA). Before joining M-Five, Daniel worked at the Vietnam Institute of Economics and Lufthansa Cargo.
Job Titles:
- Scientific Researcher
- Scientific Researcher at M - Five GmbH Mobility
Dr. Arpita Khanna has been working as a scientific researcher at M-Five GmbH Mobility, Futures, Innovation, Economics in Karlsruhe since May 2023. She obtained her PhD from the University of Konstanz in 2017. She specializes in statistical and econometric modelling and has worked on a wide range of topics related to transport, energy, resources, environment, geopolitics, governance and macroeconomic growth and development. In 2015, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Oslo. She was previously affiliated with the Öko-Institute, the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), and The Energy & Resources institute (TERI).
Christian Scherf (Dr. phil.) has been a scientific consultant at M-Five GmbH Mobility, Futures, Innovation, Economics in Karlsruhe since July 2018. He studied sociology and transportation at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2009 to 2018 Christian worked at the Innovation Centre for Mobility and Societal Change (InnoZ) in Berlin and at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin.
He researches and advises on the topics of new mobility offers, data analysis and social effects of transport. In his PhD thesis he examined the opportunities and challenges of joint offers between public transport and other mobility service providers using the example of smart cards.
Dr. Christian Scherf has extensive experience in working on multi-partner projects in mobility research. He is an expert in public transport and interactions with mobility services such as bike and car sharing.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Scientific Director
- Scientific Lead
Wolfgang Schade, Dr. rer. Pol, has been scientific director, founder and managing director of M-Five GmbH Mobility, Futures, Innovation, Economics in Karlsruhe since May 2015. He has been visiting professor for European policy analysis at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, for the three academic years from 2015 to 2018.
Wolfgang Schade studied industrial engineering with a specialization in traffic engineering as well as urban development and regional planning at the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT), after which he completed his doctorate as an economist on the macroeconomic effects of European transport policy at the Institute for Economic Policy and Economic Research (IWW), also at KIT.
From 1997 to 2004 Wolfgang researched and lectured at KIT in the field of economic evaluation and sustainable transport policy. He worked on research projects in sustainable mobility on behalf of the OECD and the Federal Environment Agency (EST, Environmentally Sustainable Transport). In 2001 he was temporarily delegated to the European Commission, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in Seville, as a national expert. There he was involved in technology foresight and employment studies for the target year 2020.
From 2008 to the beginning of 2015 Wolfgang was head of the business unit Transportation Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (Fraunhofer ISI) in Karlsruhe, where he had already been researching as a scientist and project manager since 2005. He coordinated several projects on energy transformation in transport (e.g. TRIAS, iTREN-2030) and European climate policy in transport (e.g. GHG-TransPoRD) and was deeply involved in the development and evaluation of the EU climate strategy for the climate summit in Copenhagen (e.g. ADAM, MATISSE).
He focuses on transport policy, innovation systems of the different transport modes, qualitative and quantitative scenarios of future mobility and for climate protection, macroeconomic analyses as well as strategy consulting for policy makers and companies. In recent years he has managed and worked on numerous projects on these topics for national ministries, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the German Bundestag, as well as for companies and associations in the mobility sector. Since 2015, he has been one of the coordinators of the scientific support to the Federal Government's Mobility and Fuel Strategy (MKS) and is responsible for the strategic and holistic analyses in the MKS consortium.
Job Titles:
- Scientific Consultant / Data Analyst
- Scientific Consultant for M - Five GmbH Mobility
Ines Haug (M.Sc. Economics) has been working as a scientific consultant for M-Five GmbH Mobility, Futures, Innovation, Economics in Karlsruhe since May 2021. Previously, she completed her master's degree in Economics at the University of Hohenheim with a focus on public economics and econometrics, as well as her bachelor's degree in Economics and Business Administration. During her studies, Ines already gained practical experience in the fields of climate policy, future transportation and data analysis.
Job Titles:
- IT Specialist / Data Analyst
Julian Emmerich (M.Sc.) joined M-Five GmbH Mobility,Futures, Innovation, Economics as IT Specialist and Data Analyst in January 2020. At M-Five, Julian uses statistical and data science methods to analyze and process large amounts of (raw) data in the transportation sector. In addition, he manages several databases and, depending on the requirements, develops the Interface software for the appropriate use.
In the ASTRA model, among others, he deals with the implementation and evaluation of measures in the traffic-related modules, the generation of data science-generated inputs, and the calibration of the overall model. Julian also manages the IT infrastructure at M-Five and regularly implements new ideas for better and hybrid collaboration within the team.
Job Titles:
- Scientific Consultant / Transport
Marcel Streif (M.Sc.) completed his bachelor's degree in transportation systems management at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences from 2015 to 2019. Directly afterwards, he transferred to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for his master's degree. He successfully completed the Mobility and Infrastructure degree program in 2021 with a Master of Science. After internships at the city of Heidelberg in strategic traffic planning and a student trainee position at M-Five, he became part of the consulting team here in spring 2021.
In his studies, he placed particular emphasis on deepening his knowledge of traffic planning and modeling. He was also able to gain experience in this area in his two final theses. In his bachelor thesis he modeled traffic choice in Offenburg (discrete choice model). Later, in his master thesis, he was able to extend his experience by building a 4-step model for the city of Ettlingen.
Marcel Streif has extensive experience with various topic-specific software. He also has insights and experience in various transport planning processes. He has a quick grasp and excels in systematic problem solving.
Job Titles:
- Scientific Consultant
- Scientific Consultant / Transport
Rafael Oehme (M.Sc. Traffic System Management) joined M-Five as a scientific consultant in November 2021. As part of his Bachelor in Business Administration in Transport and Logistics at the Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, he spent a semester working as an intern for Daimler AG in the department Assembly control and shipping, where he was able to gain insights in supply chain management and first work experience.
While obtaining his Master's degree in Traffic System Management he was a research assistant at the Institute for Resource Efficiency and Energy Strategies (IREES GmbH) in Karlsruhe. In his master's thesis, which he wrote in cooperation with Fraunhofer ISI, he investigated the usage of e-scooters in the context of public transport in 2020/2021. During his studies and activities he gained experience in both freight and passenger transport. He was able to acquire further knowledge through various research projects on new mobility services and public transport and dealt with various topics of the energy transition.
Rafael Oehme has extensive knowledge of freight and passenger transport as well as energy transition topics. Together with his curious character and quick comprehension, it is easy for him to become familiar with a wide variety of topics and programs.
Tatjana Griffith has been with M-Five GmbH Mobility, Futures, Innovation, Economics in Karlsruhe since December 2019. Before she joined the team of M-Five, she worked as an administrative assistant to the head of internal services and in accounting at the Fraunhofer Institute ISI in Karlsruhe. She spent more than ten years in the United States where she gained interesting insights into the American business world.
Tatjana is an expert in the organisation of internal and external events as well as ofiice management.