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Personal Biography

I was born in January 1971 in Münsingen, a small town in the south west of Germany. There I went to school (Grundschule and Gymnasium) until I was nineteen. During this time I got involved in various youth work activities with the EJW Münsingen - a Christian organisation for young people. After finishing my Abitur in 1990, I did my Civil Service at the General Hospital in Münsingen. During this period, I started working as a system programmer for the machine engineering company Setec. My work involved the development of control applications for large industrial machines.

In 1992 I started my first degree in Computer Science (Diplom Informatik) at the University of Ulm. At the end of my second year I started working for the computing department as a systems administrator. I was responsible for the student workstation pool. In 1995 I got a scholarship to study one year abroad - at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. During this time I studied and worked as a student researcher at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). After this year, I returned back to Ulm to finish my Master Degree in Computer Science, where I was also involved in the EU project CoBrow.

Due to the academic relations gained with Lancaster University throughout this project, I was invited to do a part-time Ph.D. in the Distributed Multimedia Research Group (with Prof. David Hutchison) while working for the Computing Department. As a research associate, I was involved in several national and international as well as industry funded projects. The projects I was primarily working for are CoBrow/D, LandMARC, ProgNet and the Mobile-IPv6 Systems Research Lab (MSRL). In December 2002, I successfully defended my Ph.D. Thesis and was hence awarded the Doctorate Degree (Ph.D.) in Computer Science.

From January 2003 until February 2004 I continued to work at the Computing Department as a Postdoctoral researcher.

In March 2004, I started a new post as a research staff member at NEC Network Laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany, where I have been actively involved in various research projects, including the FP6 IST Project Ambient Networks and the FP6 IST Project Autonomic Network Architecture (ANA). Besides the project work, I was also responsible for the acquisition of new research funding and the management of research projects, both internal and external projects.

In April 2007, I became the manager of the Next-Generation Networking (NGN) research group, heading an international team of around 10 researchers in the area of mobile networks, real-time communications and autonomic networking.

Since April 2010, I am the manager of the Mobile and Wireless Networks group, where I leads a team of 15 researchers and standards people in the area of wireless access and backhaul networks, mobile core networks, Femtocell technologies as well as mobile cloud. My team is also actively engaged in standardisation in 3GPP, Femto Forum, IEEE, IETF and Wimax Forum.

A significant part of my work is dedicated to the standardisation of next-generation mobile networks architectures, solutions and protocols within the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the IETF. My main focus in 3GPP lies on Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and the 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (EPC).

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