Christoph Schmelz is a Principal Research Lead at Nokia in Munich. He is coordinating the Horizon Europe SNS-JU Sustainability Lighthouse project SUSTAIN-6G which aims at defining a framework for integrating 6G technology and vertical use cases towards improving sustainability in all 3 pillars – environmental, societal, and economic. Christoph has more than 20 years of work experience as researcher and project manager in mobile networks at Siemens and Nokia, with the focus areas of network and service automation, network management architecture, mobile network architecture and sustainability. He has been in lead positions in multiple international research projects such as 5G-MoNArch (H2020) and SEMAFOUR (FP7). Christoph holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree from TU München.