Dr. Christian Prehofer obtained his PhD at the Technical University of Munich in 1995, where he also received a habilitation degree in 2000. From 1998 to 2001 he was system architect and group leader at Siemens in the area of communication systems. Starting in 2002, he established a research group with a focus on self-organized systems at DoCoMo Euro Labs. From 2006 to 2009 he held positions as a distinguished research leader and director in the area of Internet services at Nokia in Finland. Following this, he acted as chief researcher at Fraunhofer and in parallel as professor at the LMU München, as a deputy of Prof. Wirsing. His research interests are Internet-applications as well as software technology and architecture for mobile and embedded systems. Since 2013, he has been leading the research group on Internet of Things & Services at fortiss. From 2014, he has also been lecturing at TU München and Adjunct Professor at Chang’an University since 2015.