updated on: 13. 3. 2012

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Short version:

Michael Welzl passed his Ph.D. defense at the University of
Darmstadt / Germany with distinction in November 2002, and received
his habilitation from the same University in June 2007. He spent
two years as a research assistant at the Telecooperation department,
University of Linz / Austria, before joining the faculty of the newly
founded Institute of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck /
Austria in November 2001, where he led a research team on Network
Support for Grid Computing. In May 2009, he joined the Department
of Informatics of the University of Oslo as Associate Professor. He
was appointed to a Full Professorship in September 2009. Since October 2011,
he is also an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology.

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Medium version:

Michael Welzl passed his Ph.D. defense at the University of Darmstadt / Germany
with distinction in November 2002, and received his habilitation from the
same University in June 2007. His Ph.D. thesis "Scalable Performance Signalling
and Congestion Avoidance", which was written under the supervision of
Prof. Max Muehlhaeuser (Univ. Darmstadt, Germany) and Prof. Jon Crowcroft
(Univ. Cambridge, UK), was published by Springer as a research monograph in
2003 and received the "Best Dissertation Award 2004" from the German GI / ITG
section on Communication and Distributed Systems. His habilitation thesis,
the Wiley book "Network Congestion Control: Managing Internet Traffic", is
the only introductory book on network congestion control. Both books received
awards from the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Michael Welzl spent two years as a research assistant at the Telecooperation
department, University of Linz / Austria, before joining the faculty of the
newly founded Institute of Computer Science at the University of
Innsbruck / Austria in November 2001, where he led a research team
on Network Support for Grid Computing. In May 2009, he joined the Department
of Informatics of the University of Oslo as Associate Professor. He
was appointed to a Full Professorship in September 2009. Since October 2011,
he is also an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology.

He has been primary investigator of several funded research projects,
coordinated the EC FP6 IST STREP project "EC-GIN", is co-chair of
the IRTF Internet Congestion Control Research Group (ICCRG), and actively
participates in several IETF and IRTF groups in addition to contributing
to academic workshops, conferences and journals in various roles.

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Long version:

Michael Welzl received his master's degree from the University of Linz / Austria,
passed his Ph.D. defense at the University of Darmstadt / Germany with
distinction in November 2002, and received his habilitation from the
University of Darmstadt / Germany in June 2007. His Ph.D. thesis "Scalable
Performance Signalling and Congestion Avoidance", which was written under
the supervision of Prof. Max Muehlhaeuser (Univ. Darmstadt, Germany) and
Prof. Jon Crowcroft (Univ. Cambridge, UK), was published by Springer as a
research monograph in 2003 and received an award from the University of
Innsbruck, Austria as well as the "Best Dissertation Award 2004" from the
German GI / ITG section on Communication and Distributed Systems. His
habilitation thesis, the Wiley book "Network Congestion Control: Managing
Internet Traffic", is the only introductory book on the topic of
network congestion control, and received an award from the University of
Innsbruck, Austria.

Michael Welzl spent two years as a research assistant at the Telecooperation
department, University of Linz / Austria, before joining the faculty of the
newly founded Institute of Computer Science at the University of
Innsbruck / Austria in November 2001, where he led a research team
on Network Support for Grid Computing. In May 2009, he joined the Department
of Informatics of the University of Oslo as Associate Professor. He
was appointed to a Full Professorship in September 2009. Since October 2011,
he is also an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology.

He has been the primary investigator of several funded research projects and
coordinated the EC FP6 IST STREP project "EC-GIN". He is also co-chair
of the IRTF Internet Congestion Control Research Group (ICCRG), and he
actively participates in several IETF and IRTF groups, and made contributions
to the Open Grid Forum. He contributed to academic workshops, conferences and
journals, acting as author, tutorial presenter, general co-chair,
steering committee member, local chair, PC co-chair, PC member,
session chair and reviewer.

He teaches and taught courses on topics such as networks, multimedia,
operating systems, programming and algorithms and data structures,
supervised several master's theses and numerous bachelor theses
and student projects.

Michael Welzl doesn't like writing about himself in the third person,
approaches life as an optimist, tries to have fun with everything he does,
and wishes you a nice day.