Dr. von Spiegel is an expert for advanced optical Head-up Display and Picture Generating Unit concepts at Continental Automotive in Babenhausen, Germany. He studied physics at the Technische Universität Darmstadt where he did his diploma with a thesis on direct laser beam writing of optical microstructures and his Ph.D. on holographic projection screens. After some postdoctoral research on terahertz imaging at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt, he effectively joined Continental in 2011. He is involved in the collaborative development of the automotive waveguide head-up display with Digilens from its very beginning.