PSA has appointed Christian Müller as Powertrain & Chassis Engineering head, effective 1 August, reporting to EVP Research & Development, Nicolas Morel.

Müller, current Opel R&D chief, succeeds Alain Raposo, who has served in the position since May, 2018.

Raposo has chosen to leave PSA voluntarily at the end of August, 2020 in order to pursue a personal project.

Marcus Lott, VP Body in White, Equipment & Materials Engineering and an Opel/Vauxhall engineer since 1994, will become the new head for R&D of the German and British brands and member of the managing board of Opel, effective 1 August.

“German Engineering is at the heart of Opel,” said PSA managing board member and Opel/Vauxhall CEO, Michael Lohscheller.

“As head of Opel R&D, Christian played a key role in making this visible and tangible for our customers in all of our models, like the current Corsa and future Mokka, which are also available in electric versions.

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“With Marcus Lott, we have appointed a highly experienced and recognised engineer as his successor. Marcus has known our company, models and people for almost 30 years now.”

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