Dr. Simon Rommel obtained his B.Sc. degree from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2011 and in 2014 obtained M.Sc. degrees in Photonic Networks Engineering from Aston University, Birmingham, UK and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. He completed his Ph.D. in 2017 at the Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark with research focused on photonic-wireless convergence and millimeter-wave radio-over-fiber links. In 2017 he visited the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan for a research stay. Since 2017 he is with Eindhoven University of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher, continuing his work photonic and radio frequency technologies with a strong focus on implementations for 5G. His research interests include the fields of fiber-optic and wireless communications and the associated digital signal processing. He has contributed to multiple national and European research projects, incl. H2020 blueSPACE as technical manager. Dr. Rommel is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The Optical Society (OSA), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V (VDE).