Robbe Elsas is a Ph.D. candidate with the IDLab research group (https://idlab.technology) of Ghent University and imec. He received a B.Sc. (2017) and M.Sc. (2018) degree in Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. In 2019 he started a Ph.D. fellowship at Ghent University, Belgium under a Special Research Fund (BOF) doctoral scholarship. He has since obtained a strategic basic research grant from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) through which he continues his work at IDLab as a Ph.D. candidate in the field of multi-hop wireless sensor networks for use in highly dynamic / heterogeneous industrial environments.