Christian Wietfeld received the Dr.-Ing. and Dipl.-Ing. degrees from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. He is currently a Full Professor and the Head of the Communication Networks Institute, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany. For more than 30 years, he has been a Coordinator and a Contributor to large-scale research projects on internet-based mobile communication systems within both academia and industry with RWTH Aachen (1992–1997), Siemens AG (1997–2005), and TU Dortmund (since 2005). His current research interests include the design and performance evaluation of 5G and 6G communication networks for cyber-physical systems in energy, transport, robotics, and emergency response. He is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and holds several patents. He has been a Co-Founder of the IEEE Global Communications Conference Workshop on Wireless Networking for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles and a member of the Technical Editor Board of the IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine. In addition to more than ten IEEE best paper awards, he was a recipient of the ITU-T Outstanding Contribution Award for his work on the standardization of next-generation mobile network architectures.