Dr.-Ing. Jan Richter stud­ied elec­tri­cal engi­neer­ing and infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy at the Karl­sruhe Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy (KIT). He focused on elec­tric mobil­i­ty and the fields of elec­tro­chem­i­cal ener­gy stor­age, pow­er elec­tron­ics, and elec­tri­cal machines. Dur­ing his stud­ies, he spent half a year work­ing in the Dalian Insti­tute of Chem­i­cal Physics in Chi­na and for Mer­cedes-Benz Research & Devel­op­ment North Amer­i­ca in the USA. He com­plet­ed his doc­tor­ate on mod­el­ling, para­me­ter iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and con­trol of high­ly-uti­lized syn­chro­nous machines at the Insti­tute of Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing (ETI) at KIT, grad­u­at­ing sum­ma cum laude. He received the PCIM Young Engi­neer Award for his research. As part of his activ­i­ties, he devel­oped a mod­el-based devel­op­ment tool for pow­er elec­tron­ics and elec­tri­cal machines for a Tier‑1 auto­mo­tive sup­pli­er. Dur­ing his under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate stud­ies, he received a schol­ar­ship from the Stu­di­en­s­tiftung des deutschen Volkes.