Mark Schmidt has studied Bioinformatics at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His diploma thesis had the topic "A Metering Infrastructure for Mobile Communication Networks using Publish-/Subscribe-Mechanisms and supporting Quality of Measurement". He is currently working in BW-Fit research project "AmbiSense" in the field of wireless LAN based localization. The main research focus lies in time of flight measurements and cooperative localization and sensor fusion.