Guy Fournier

Mobility

Biography: Guy Fournier is Professor affiliated to Pforzheim University in Germany since 2004 and S.E.R.G. / CentraleSupélec in France since 2018.

He is an expert in sustainable mobility and system innovation which serves general interest. French born and equipped with a German Doctorate Degree, he has worked primarily in the technology sector in several countries in Europe prior to joining academia.

In 2010 he was one of the 2 founders of the INEC (Institute for Industrial Ecology).

In 1994 he was awarded the price for the best doctorate in Germany by the SEL-Alcatel Foundation Communication Research (Stuttgart).

Research interests and projects: His core interest and expertise, honed through many projects, lies in international economics, sustainable development and new innovative business models with electric vehicles, automated vehicles, MaaS (Mobility as a Service), self-learning ITS (Intelligent Transport System), etc.

He was working from 2018-2022 on a Horizon project (AVENUE) to design and carry out full scale demonstrations of urban transport automation by deploying, for the first time worldwide, fleets of automated mini-buses in low to medium demand areas of 4 European demonstrator cities:

In a new Horizon Europe project (2022-2026, 55 million €, ULTIMO), he is scientific advisor and quality manager. The aim of the ULTIMO project is to integrate automated mini-buses in a MaaS / ITS in Geneva (Switzerland), Herford (Germany) and Oslo (Norway) to enable sustainable citizen centric mobility.

He is a member of the CooL4 (cooperative Level4 Automated Mobility Services) collaboration between the EU and Japan.

Teaching activities: Supply Chain Management, Future Mobility, International economy and sustainable development, International Management.

In 2019 he received the Research Excellence Award Pforzheim and in 2012 the Award for excellence in Teaching from the Faculty of Engineering and the University of Applied Sciences in Pforzheim.

Management Duties: Since 2016, he is a board member of the international GE4 network (international non-profit network of universities linking academic engineering and management institutions worldwide) and has been responsible of the international development of the Faculty of Engineering for 15 years.

He was member of the selection committee of the German Academic exchange Service (DAAD) for the Promotion of Foreign Guest Lecturers in Teaching Activities at German Universities and was one the founder and first program director of the Bachelor “International Business Administration and Engineering”.