Dr. Reiner Jedermann earned his degree in electrical engineering in 1990 at the University of Bremen. In 2004, after two employments on embedded processing of speech and audio signals, he became a research associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Bremen and completed his Ph.D. thesis on decision tools for freight supervision in 2009. Until 2018, he continued his research with focus on the analysis of spatial temperature profiles and the implementation of automated remote quality monitoring of fruits in containers and refrigerated warehouses. His subsequent projects include the integration of RFID sensors into fiber composite materials, moisture sensors for masonry, and ultrasonic sensors for monitoring defrosting of food products.