He received his MSc and PhD from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, was a postdoc at TU Munich and Uni Paderborn, a Senior Research Scientist at T-Labs Berlin, and a visiting professor at CNRS (LAAS), Toulouse and at Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL). He serves as the Editor of the Distributed Computing Column of the Bulletin of the EATCS, and as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). His research interests revolve around the fundamental and algorithmic problems arising in distributed and networked systems. Stefan Schmid received the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Early Career Award 2016.