Christopher JONES graduated from the University of Paderborn (Germany) in 2010 with an electronical engineering diploma, focused on the numerical simulation of electro-magnetic waves and waveguides. Following that he spent two years researching plasmonics waveguides at the University of Hagen (Germany). In 2013 he joined Dassault Systèmes working as a solution consultant for systems engineering & numeric simulation. He relocated to Los Angeles in the summer of 2016 to support simulation market across all industries in North America.
Franz Hirtenfelder received an engineering degree from the Technical University of Graz, Austria, in 1983. His thesis was titled "Generation of Finite Element Software for Eddy Current Field Problems".
He worked as a development engineer with Kathrein-KG in Rosenheim, Germany, where he applied method of moment computer codes for UHF and VHF antenna design. He also had a position of scientific collaborator with the Radar/ HF Departement of the IABG at Ottobunn, Germany, where he developed software for prediction of radar cross sections of military equipment. From 1999-2019 he also had a position as Senior Application Engineer/Principal Engineer at the CST AG, Darmstadt, Germany and his primary responsibilities were providing technical support for users of CST products in the field of low and high frequency electromagnetics, developing and teaching special tailored training classes in electromagnetics modeling and giving CST product demonstrations at seminars, workshops, conferences, and meetings with customers and prospects.
In 2019 he joined Dassault Systemes/Munich working within the EMAG-Workflow organization, worldwide acting as a communication link between R&D and the customer field/sales. Tasks include technical marketing, technical visibility, special tailored trainings, workflow definitions, demo materials and customer services.
He has authored or coauthored a number of papers and articles in computational electromagnetics.