Daniel Lichtenecker

Daniel Lichtenecker is a mechanical engineer and current Senior Modeling & Simulation Engineer at Medtronic, where they have been since 2024. They served as a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 2023 and previously held various roles at notable companies, including a research assistant at Technical University of Munich and a scientific employee at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz. Daniel earned a Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) in Mechanical Engineering from Technische Universität München in 2024, following a Diplomingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Mechanical Engineering from Fachhochschule Oberösterreich. Their experience spans diverse aspects of mechanical systems, robotics, and control engineering.