Former Team Members & Visitors

Former Team Members

Dr.-Ing. Patrick Rathje
Graduated in December 2024 at Kiel University
PhD Topic: From Contact Tracing to Coordination: Autonomy for Mobile Low-Power IoT Systems
Supervision:
  • Prof. Dr. Olaf Landsiedel, Kiel University
Reviewers:
  • Prof. Dr. Olaf Landsiedel, Kiel University
  • Associate Professor Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz, Austria
Examiner:
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kevin Köser, Kiel University
Chairman of the defense:
  • Prof. Dr. Reinhard von Hanxleden, Kiel University
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Julia Andersen
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Dr. Valentin Poirot
Graduated in September 2022 at Chalmers University of Technology
PhD Topic: Collaborative, Intelligent, and Adaptive Systems for the Low-Power Internet of Things
Supervision:
  • Prof. Dr. Olaf Landsiedel, Kiel University
  • Associate Professor Tomas Olovsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Opponent:
  • Prof. Stephan Sigg, Aalto University, Finland
Defense Committee:
  • Prof. Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Prof. Dr. Selma Saidi, TU Dortmund University, Germany
  • Prof. Dr. Olga Saukh, TU Graz and CSH Vienna, Austria
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Dr. Christos Profentzas
Graduated in June 2022 at Chalmers University of Technology
PhD Topic: Self-Reliance for the Internet of Things: Blockchains and Deep Learning on Low-Power IoT Devices
Supervision:
  • Associate Professor Magnus Almgren, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Prof. Dr. Olaf Landsiedel, Kiel University
Opponent:
  • Shahid Raza, RISE, Sweden
Defense Committee:
  • Prof. Raja Jurdak, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • Associate Professor Edith C.H. Ngai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
  • Prof. Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden
  • Substitute: Associate Professor Pedro Petersen Moura Trancoso (Chalmers)
Chairman of the defense and examiner:
  • Prof. Ulf Assarsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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Ahmed Seyyid Lahmer
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Dr. Charalampos Stylianopoulos
Graduated in October 2020 at Chalmers University of Technology
PhD Topic: Hardware-Aware Algorithm Designs for Efficient Parallel and Distributed Processing
Supervision:
  • Associate Professor Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Associate Professor Magnus Almgren, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (co supervisor)
  • Prof. Dr. Olaf Landsiedel, Kiel University (co supervisor)
Opponent:
  • Prof. Angelos Bilas, University of Crete and FORTH, Greece
Defense Committee:
  • Prof. Herbert Bos, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Prof. Dr. Jörg Keller, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
  • Associate professor Dr. Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden
  • Substitute: Associate Professor Ioannis Sourdis (Chalmers)
Chairman of the defense and examiner:
  • Prof. Aarne Ranta, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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Dr. Beshr Al Nahas
Graduated in November 2019 at Chalmers University of Technology
PhD Topic: Synchronous and Concurrent Transmissions for Consensus in Low-Power Wireless
Supervision:
  • Prof. Dr. Olaf Landsiedel, Kiel University
  • Prof. Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (co supervisor)
  • Simon Duquennoy, RISE, Sweden (external co supervisor)
Opponent:
  • Prof. Kay Römer, TU Graz, Austria
Defense Committee:
  • Prof. Utz Roedig, University College Cork, Ireland
  • Associate Professor Alejandro Russo, Chalmers, replacing Professor Mikael Gidlund from Mid Sweden University in Sweden
  • Associate professor Marco Zunig, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
  • Substitute: Assistant Professor Vincenzo Gulisano (Chalmers)
Chairman of the defense and examiner:
  • Prof. Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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Dr. Martina Brachmann
Co-Supervised by Olaf Landsiedel, Graduated in November 2018 at TU Dresden, Germany
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Viktor Botev
Research Engineer at Chalmers, co-supervised by Marina Papatriantafilou, Magnus Almgren, Olaf Landsiedel, and Vincenzo Gulisano, 09/2014 - 09/2016

Dr. Zhang Fu
PostDoc, co-supervised by Marina Papatriantafilou, Magnus Almgren and Olaf Landsiedel, 10/2012 – 09/2014

Dr. Euhanna Ghadimi
PhD Student at KTH, co-supervision by Olaf Landsiedel for 12 month during his time at KTH, 2011

Dr. António Gonga
PhD Student at KTH, co-supervision by Olaf Landsiedel for 6 month during his time at KTH, 2011

Former Team Visitors

Thiemo Voigt
Visiting Professor, Uppsala University and RISE Sweden, hosted by Olaf Landsiedel, 10/2024 & 01/2025

Peilin Zhang
Visiting PhD Student, University of Oldenburg, hosted by Olaf Landsiedel, 02/2016 - 05/2016

Coen Roest
Visiting MS thesis student, TU Delft, hosted by Olaf Landsiedel, 02/2015 - 07/2015

Francisco Sant'anna
Visiting PhD Student, PUC-Rio, hosted by Philippas Tsigas and Olaf Landsiedel, 01/2013 – 07/2013

Hamed Khanmirza
Visiting PhD Student, University of Tehran, hosted by Marina Papatriantafilou and Olaf Landsiedel, 05/2012 – 12/2012