Nikolaas Van den Steen graduated in 2017 as a Master of Energy Engineering Technology specialization Electrical Engineering at the KU Leuven Campus Ghent and achieved his Joint-PhD in March 2024 at KU Leuven and VUB on the topic of speed pedelecs. He is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher in the field of electric mobility as part of the MOBI research group. He has been and is active in several national and European projects related to electric mobility. His field of expertise are (light) electric vehicles, speed pedelecs and e-mobility.