Zoran Utkovski received the Dr. Ing. degree (with distinction) from the University of Ulm, Germany, in 2010 and the M.Sc. degree (with distinction) from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2004. He is a senior researcher in the Information and Signal Processing Group at Fraunhofer HHI. He received a Fulbright Scholarship and was a visiting scholar at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and at the University Carlos III in Madrid. His research interests include communication theory, machine learning, communication security and complex systems theory. Dr. Utkovski is involved in the "6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC)", which is funded by the BMBF and coordinated by Fraunhofer HHI, where he acts as research coordinator of the working groups.