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Brief bio: I received Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 2002 from RWTH Aachen University, and Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from the Technische Universitaet Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Holger Boche. In 2012 I became Docent in Communication Theory at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. In November 2008 I joined the Communication Theory Department at KTH as a Post-Doctoral Researcher, was an Assistant Professor between July 2010 and April 2013, an Associate Professor between May 2014 and October 2018 and have been a Professor since Nov 2018. In June 2021, I became Fellow of KTH Digital Futures.

Selected Awards and Grants

In 2002 I received the “Herbert-Doering Award” for my Diploma Thesis and the Best Paper Award on the 6th Int. Student Conf. of Elect. Eng. of the CTU Prague. I received the Best Student Paper Award and Best Paper Award on the 8th IEEE Works. on Signal Proc. Adv. in Wirel. Commun. in 2007 and Int. ICST Conf. Commun. Netw. in 2010 and the “Vodafone Förderpreis” (Advancement Award) from the Vodafone Foundation in June 2009. In 2010 I was awarded an SRA ICT-TNG starting grant, in 2012 I was awarded a VR Junior Research grant and in 2016 I was awarded a VR Project grant. I were coordinator of the European CHIST-ERA project COPES - COnsumer-centric Privacy in smart Energy gridS . Among some other smaller projects, I am currently engaged in the exciting European project ULISSES.

Academic Service

• Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security: I am member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security since June 2016, impact factor 4.332 (2017).

• Editor MDPI entropy: I am editor of the online MDPI journal entropy since Aug 2017, impact factor 1.821 (2017) and the special issue Information Theory for Control, Games and Decision Problems

• KTH Digitalization Platform: Since Feb 2019, I am the director of KTHs research platform on Digitalization.

• EECS Strategic Council: I am an elected faculty representative in the EECS Strategic Council since Apr 2018.

• CT Bachelor Thesis Coordinator: I serve as Bachelor thesis coordinator for our department since 2016.

• Committee Member: I regularly serve as committee member in PhD grading committees and as member in technical program committees of conferences.

• Reviewer: I regularly serve as reviewer for conferences and journals as well as funding agencies, recently Israel Science Foundation (ISF), CHIST-ERA, ANID National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FONDECYT), European Research Council (ERC), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), French National Research Agency (ANR), and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Selected past academic services

• I was Associate Editor of the IEEE Communication Letters between Feb 2012 and March 2015.

• ICT TNG Executive Group: I was charing the ICT TNG Executive Group organising activities of the strategic research area between Aug 2015 and June 2019.

• ACCESS TA Security, Privacy, and Trust: I was deputy leader of the ACCESS thematic area on Security, Privacy and Trust until June 2019.

• EECS Impactansvarig: Between Aug 2015 and March 2019, I was the impact leader of the school of electrical engineering (later EECS) at KTH.

• KTH EES Faculty Council: Between March 2014 and Dec 2017, I was member of the faculty council of the school of electrical engineering, KTH.

• CT Master Thesis Coordinator: I served as CT master thesis coordinator between 2012 and 2017. Still, if you are a KTH student and you are interested in doing a master thesis project in the area of communication theory, then please feel free to contact me.

• COST IC1004: I was the KTH contact for COST IC1004 and served as substitute member for the management committee of the Swedish delegation.