Jens Ziehn studied computer science at Leibniz Universität Hannover. He received his M.Sc. in 2012 with a master's thesis on "Energy-based collision avoidance for Autonomous Vehicles". He currently has his office at Fraunhofer IOSB, Karlsruhe, on a new approach to automated driving named SPARC, in cooperation with Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH and TNT.