Carl Westin

Curriculum Vitae Carl Westin was born on January 26th, 1982, in Hud- dinge, Sweden. His mother is Dutch and his father is Swedish. From 1998 to 2002 he attended secondary school at Sj¨odalsgymnasiet in Huddinge. During this period he was part of starting and running a business, Proglobe UF, dur- ing the last academic year as part of the Junior Achievement (JA) educational program in Sweden. Proglobe UF won the Swedish JA championship and came second in the European JA championship in 2002. Aspiring to fulfil his childhood dream, he enrolled 2005 as a student the School of Aviation at Lund University (Ljungbyhed, Sweden). In November 2006 he grad- uated a commercial air traffic pilot with a University Diploma. Directly following graduation he joined Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen, Denmark) 2007 as a First Offi- cer on the Boeing 737NG. In 2009, following Sterling Airlines bankruptcy in 2008, he joined Maximus Air Cargo (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) as a First Offi- cer on the Airbus 300. In 2010 he left the Middle East and moved closer to home when joining Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo, Norway) as a First Officer, again on the Boeing 737NG. While initially based in Helsinki, Finland, and then Trondheim, Norway, he has been working from home in Stockholm since 2013. Parallel to his flying, Carl has pursued an academic career that started in 2006. His studies at the School of Aviation required an university thesis, which he wrote on the subject of human factors challenges in unmanned aerial vehicles. One of the su- pervisors, PhD Brian Hilburn, subsequently hired Carl as an aviation/ATM research consultant to work for the Center for Human Performance Research (CHPR). Dur-