Florian Römer studied computer engineering at the Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, and McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He received the Diplom-Ingenieur degree in communications engineering and the doctoral (Dr.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the Ilmenau University of Technology in October 2006 and October 2012, respectively. From December 2006 until September 2012, he has been a Research Assistant in the Communications Research Laboratory at Ilmenau University of Technology. In October 2012 he has joined the Digital Broadcasting Research Group (later renamed to Electronic Measurements and Signal Processing Group), a joint research activity between the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and Ilmenau University of Technology, as a postdoctoral research fellow. In January 2018 he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing IZFP where he is leading the SigMaSense group with a research focus on innovative sensing and signal processing for material diagnostics and nondestructive testing. Mr. Römer received the Siemens Communications Academic Award for his diploma thesis in 2006 and the EURASIP best dissertation award in 2016 for his dissertation. He has also served as a member of the organizing committee of the 19-th International Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA) 2015 in Ilmenau, Germany, as well as the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP) 2018 in Freiburg, Germany. Since 2018, he is a