Helmut Adam studied telematics at TU Graz and then worked for Infineon Technologies on wireless sensor networks and chip verification. He was a research and teaching staff member in Bettstetter's group in Klagenfurt from 2006 until 2011 and received the Dr. techn. degree for his dissertation on protocols for wireless relay networks in 2011. He is now a senior software engineer at easyplex software.

• Research: Wireless networks, relaying, MAC, cardinality estimation
• Dissertation: "Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks: Relay Selection and Medium Access" examined by C. Bettstetter and H. Karl (Paderborn)
• Publications in IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput. and IEEE communications confs.
• Two patent applications
• Teaching: Electricity & magnetism, sensor networks lab, network theory
• Awards: Dissertation award from the Austrian ICT society (GIT-OVE); Best student paper award at IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf.
• Project partners: Orange Labs, Lakeside Labs

Udo Schilcher studied applied computing and technical mathematics at the University of Klagenfurt, where he received two Dipl.-Ing. degrees with distinction. He was a research and teaching staff member in Bettstetter's group from 2005 until 2011 and received the Dr. techn. degree with distinction from U Klagenfurt in 2011 for his dissertation on interference dynamics and node distribution modeling in wireless networks. He is now a senior researcher at the Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems with Bettstetter.

• Research: Wireless networks, stochastic modeling, interference dynamics, network theory
• Dissertation: "Inhomogeneous node distributions and interference correlation in wireless networks" examined by C. Bettstetter and M. Haenggi (Notre Dame, USA)
• Publications in IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., Computer Networks, and major communications conferences
• Teaching: Mobile communications, network simulation lab, network theory
• Awards: Best paper award at IEEE Veh. Techn. Conf.
• Project partners: Lakeside Labs, University of Porto

Alexander Tyrrell studied at the Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique (ESIEE) in Paris, where he received a master degree in electrical engineering in 2005. He also received a master of research in digital telecommunications from ENST in Paris and spent a semester at Chalmers, Sweden. Supported by a scholarship of DOCOMO Euro-Labs, he was a doctoral student at the University of Klagenfurt, performing research on biologically-inspired synchronization for wireless networks from 2005 until 2009. He was awarded his doctorate degree with distinction in 2009. He was then with DOCOMO Euro-Labs until May 2011, and is now with Rohde & Schwarz.

• Research: Wireless communications, synchronization, coupled oscillators
• Dissertation: "Firefly Synchronization in Wireless Networks" examined by C. Bettstetter and R. Mathar (RWTH Aachen)
• Publications in IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., IEEE ICC, BIONETICS, others
• Several patent applications
• Awards: Best doctoral student paper award at Intern. Symp. on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Commun. Techn.
• Project partners: DOCOMO Euro-Labs, EU project WINNER2