Michael Walter received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Ulm University, Germany, in 2008 and 2015.

Since 2009 he has been a member of the scientific staff at the Institute of Communications and Navigation at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, where he gained extensive experience in organizing and conducting numerous measurement campaigns for vehicular and aeronautical research.

He was a visiting scholar at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014.

His research interests include wireless communications, mobile-to-mobile channel models, prolate spheroidal coordinates, differential forms, and algebraic curves.

Dr. Walter was the recipient of the IEEE/AIAA David Lubkowski Memorial for Advancement in Digital Avionics Best Paper Award of the 29th DASC in 2011.