Niels König has been the head and chief engineer of the Department of Production Metrology at Fruanhofer IPT since 2013. He received his diploma in physics from RWTH Aachen, majoring in solid-state physics and biochemical engineering. After joining IPT in 2007 as a research scientist and contributing to several research projects in the field of fiber optic sensors, he took over the group Fiber Optics in 2010. He is assigned for lectureship for "Optical metrology and Imaging" at RWTH Aachen University. Niels König represents the Fraunhofer IPT in the 5G-ACIA and has coordinated the 5G activities at Fraunhofer IPT since 2017. Since 2019, he has coordinated the 5G Industry Campus Europe, a large-scale infrastructure for 5G in production.