Summary
Julius Schulz-Zander is a Senior Researcher and head of the Intelligent Network Architectures Group at Fraunhofer HHI and TU Berlin, leading applied R&D in Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization and wireless systems for over a decade. He holds a Dr.-Ing. (summa cum laude) and a Diplom in Computer Science from TU Berlin and helped pioneer SDN for WiFi during early research stints at Stanford and the Hamilton Institute. Julius runs the Berlin Open Wireless Lab—an open testbed of 100+ WiFi nodes—bridging academic research and real-world wireless deployments, and teaches master-level network protocol courses at TU Berlin. His work blends systems-level protocol design with hands-on firmware and kernel modifications, reflecting deep expertise across PHY/MAC, control planes and virtualization. An alumnus of Germany’s Software Campus program, he combines academic rigor with technology transfer and operational experience in large-scale wireless testbeds.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Computer Science, Computer Networking, Diplom, Computer Science, Computer Networking at Technische Universität Berlin
Stanford University
German, English