Research notes
Carine Cridelich is a French engineer, a graduate of ENSMM Besançon in Mechanical Engineering, who also earned a dual degree in Mechatronics through Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and later completed a PhD in Data Mining and Machine Learning at the University of Franche-Comté. She first worked as a Systems Engineer at TRW Automotive in Germany for three years, before going to Oxford Brookes University in 2015 to pursue a Master's in Motorsport Engineering while interning at Williams. In 2017 she joined Red Bull's second team (Toro Rosso) as a Junior Strategy Engineer, and rose steadily through the team's various name changes to Senior Race Strategy Engineer. On 1 March 2025 she joined Haas from Racing Bulls as Head of Strategy.