Christian Mannweiler received his Dipl.-Ing. (MSc equivalent) and Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D) degrees from University of Kaiserslautern in 2008 and 2014, respectively. He joined Nokia in 2015 and heads the Network Architecture Research department at Nokia Strategy & Technology in Munich, Germany since 2020. Leading a team of 20 researchers, standardization delegates, and Ph.D candidates, Christian shapes Nokia’s directions on technology enablers for the 6^th generation (6G) of mobile networks and their integration into RAN and overall system architecture. He is co-author of numerous publications and patents in the field of mobile networking technologies and co-editor/co-author of a book on Cognitive Autonomous Networks - Network Management Automation for 5G and Beyond.