Since 1995, I'm working in the field of telecommunication in Europe and the US. The companies I worked for include:

• Equipment providers: Lucent Technologies, ActiVia Networks,
• Service providers: Sprint,
• Research labs: INRIA, Sprintlabs, ETH Zurich

2008 - present, Thomson Corporate Research, France
Senior Researcher and Research Group Leader
Paris Research Lab headed by Dr. Christophe Diot

2004 – 2008, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
Senior Researcher Associate and Lecturer
Communication Systems Research Group (CSG) of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Plattner

2000 – 2003, ActiVia Networks, Sophia Antipolis, France
Founder and Chief Network Architect
Start-up company in the field of Content Networking

1998 – 2000, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, Burlingame, California, USA
Post-doc and Research Scientist
IP research group of Dr. Christophe Diot

1997 – 1998, AT&T / Lucent Bell-Labs Research, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA
Technical staff member
High-speed networks research department (Dr. T.V. Lakshman)

1996 – 1999, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France
Research Staff member and Ph.D. candidate
RODEO project (Head of research group was Dr. Christian Huitema)

1995 – 1996, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France
Master thesis student
Winner of a Erasmus student grant (supervisor Prof. Effelsberg)

Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1999 at INRIA (Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et Automation), Sophia Antipolis, France
Advisors: Dr. Jean Bolot, Dr. Christophe Diot
Dissertation: Performance Evaluation of AQM and Differentiated-Services Networks

Diploma in Computer Science and Economics (Wirtschaftsinformatik) in 1996 from the University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany