Prof. Dr Stephan Rammler is the founding director of the Institute for Transportation Design at HDK Braunschweig. Stephan Rammler is an expert in the field of sustainable post-fossil mobility. His research focuses on digitalization and sustainability. Further focal points of Prof. Rammler's work include futures studies, policy in energy and innovation, questions of cultural transformation as well as policy with regards to environmental protection and social impacts. Stephan Rammler, (*1968) studied political science, sociology, economics and environmental management in Marburg and Berlin and wrote his doctoral thesis on "Mobility and Modernity". Until 2002, he worked as a staff member at the TU Berlin and the Social Science Research Center Berlin, where he dealt with technology and innovation theory, the growth dynamics of transport, the sociology of the automobile, innovative drive and vehicle concepts as well as energy, climate and transport policy issues. Since 2002 he has been Professor of Transportation Design & Social Sciences at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and since 2007 founding director of the Institute for Transportation Design. The institute works on design and research projects on the future of mobility for clients from the mobility and energy sectors. Since 2009 he has been commissioned to establish a research focus on "Cultural Transformation Processes" at the HBK Braunschweig. In 2010 he founded GetLab - Laboratory for Social Transformation. As its director, he cooperates with regional and national partners, including the Haus der Wissenschaften and the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation.