Dr. Ralph Sundermeier grew up in Northrhine-Westfalia in Germany, went to school there as well as in Teheran / Iran. Later he studied at the Technical University Braunschweig and finished his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1991.
Since then Dr. Sundermeier has been working for Volkswagen. He started in the department of engine production and was responsible for various projects in Germany and China. Later he was leading the department of Plastic Parts Manufacturing of the Volkswagen Group. In 2003 Dr. Sundermeier became Managing Director of the "Centre for Mechatronics" at the Technical University Braunschweig, to help advance the transfer of scientific expertise to industry.
From 2005, Dr. Sundermeier has been working in the Technical Design Department of Volkswagen, where he is responsible for the development of calculation methods. The methods developed by his team are integrated in the operative departments of Technical Design. His team also recommends the software and hardware to be adopted for the calculations.