Niels is an engineer who is constantly starting projects. His garage is replete with them: a steam engine, a hexapod robot, a one-seat hovercraft... he finishes about half the projects he begins.

Niels loves collaborating with others, but he has a tendency to assume other people are as smart and as knowledgeable as he is, which makes him not very good at explaining things to non-experts. Boyfriend of Ian.