is a professor for telecommunication systems at the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). He is leading BTH’s team on SDS (Secure and Distributed Systems). He received this Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1999 and this Habilitation degree in 2008. Both degrees were awarded by the University of Würzburg, Germany. Kurt’s research interests are centered around the architecture and mechanism of future generation distributed systems, softwarized networks, and Clouds (incl. NFV). Kurt has published about 90 books, journals, and conference contributions. He serves as one of the General Co-Chair of the IEEE Conference on NFV-SDN since 2017.