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ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, Volume 2 (2021), Issue 7

Wolfgang Gerstacker the EEEfCOM Innovation Award in 2003, the Vodafone
received the Dipl.‑Ing. degree Innovation Award in 2004, the Best Paper Award of
in electrical engineering and the EURASIP Signal Processing in 2006, and the ”Mobile
Dr.‑Ing. and Habilitation Satellite & Positioning” Track Pa- per Award of
degrees from the Friedrich‑
VTC2011-Spring. He has been the Technical Program
Alexander University (FAU)
Co-Chair or General Co-Chair of several confer- ences
Erlangen‑Nü rnberg (FAU),
including BlackSeaCom 2014, VTC2013-Fall, ACM
Erlangen, Germany, in 1991,
1998, and 2004, respectively. NanoCom 2016, and BalkanCom 2019. He is a member of
the Executive Editorial Committee of the IEEE
TRANS‑ ACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Since 2002, he has been with the Chair of Mobile
Communications and Institute for Digital Communi- and an Edi‑ tor of Computer Networks (Elsevier). He has
cations, FAU Erlangen‑Nürnberg, where he is currently a served as a member of the Editorial Board for IEEE
Professor. His research interests include the broad areas TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS,
of digital communications and statistical signal Physical Communica‑ tion (Elsevier), and EURASIP
processing, THz communications, 5G and Beyond, and Journal on Wireless Commu‑ nications and Networking,
wireless sensor networks. He has conducted various and as a Guest Editor for sev‑ eral journals and
projects with partners from industry. magazines including the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED

Dr. Gerstacker was a recipient of several awards, AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE COM‑
including the Research Award of the German Society MUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, and IEEE TRANSACTIONS
for Information Technology (ITG) in 2001, ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY.

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