His research interests include immersive multimedia communication, streaming adaptation, quality of experience, and sensory experience. Timmerer received an MSc (Dipl.-Ing.) and PhD (Dr.techn.) from Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. In addition to publishing more than 100 technical papers, he's an associate editor for Computing Now responsible for social media technologies and the inaugurating chair of the Special Technical Community on Social Networking. He was the general chair of WIAMIS 2008 and QoMEX 2013 and participated in the work of the International Organization for Standardization (IOS) and the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) for more than 10 years. He's a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Communications Society, and ACM SIGMM.