Richard Haug has been a research associate at the Institute of Human and Industrial Engineering (ifab) in the Human-Vehicle Interaction research group since September 2026. His research focuses on the teleoperation of highly automated vehicles, which he investigates in the project "Investigating Visual Complexity, Context Switching, and Individual Dispositions for Safe Teleoperation" (ICOFIT). He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), including a semester abroad at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. In his master's thesis at ifab, he already examined the influence of system transparency on performance in teleoperation. He also gained practical experience in vehicle development at Mercedes-Benz AG and Robert Bosch GmbH.