Dr. Thomas Stockhammer received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees from the Munich University of Technology, Munich, Germany. He is cofounder and CEO of Novel Mobile Radio (NoMoR) Research, a privately owned company providing consulting and software development services as well as products on emerging communication networks such as HSPA, MBMS, LTE, LTE-Advanced as well as on Mobile TV, IPTV, and Web TV-related matters.

Since 2009 he is a Consultant for Technical Standards for Qualcomm. Specifically, he is the active and has leadership and rapporteur positions in 3GPP, MPEG, IETF and the DASH-Industry Forum in the area of multimedia communication, TV-distribution, content delivery protocols and adaptive streaming.