Nikolas Oehl is a consultant at VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH, with prior experience as a development engineer at Continental. Oehl has also served as a graduate assistant at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg and as an undergraduate assistant at the Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics. Oehl holds a Doktor (Ph.D.) in Physics from Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, obtained between 2012 and 2015, and a Diplom in Nanostructure and Molecular Sciences from the University of Kassel, completed from 2006 to 2011.