Thomas Haenselmann studied computer science and
business administration at the University of Mannheim. After his
PhD in the field of image segmentation he was granted a C1
position for finishing his 'habilitation' (on Video Sensor
Networks) to obtain the venia legendi (permission for academic
teaching in Germany). During this time, he also worked as a
visiting lecturer at the Reykjavik University in Iceland and as a
research fellow at the National University of Singapore. In the
winter-term 2008, he taught on behalf of Prof. Reinhard Wilhelm
at the department 6.2 of the Saarland University.
Since 2004 he has been a member of the Technical Program
Committee (TPC) of the ACM Multimedia and he serves as associate
editor for the Springer Multimedia Systems Journal. For 2010 he
has been invited as a guest editor for the ACM TOMCCAP
(Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and
Applications) special issue on Multimedia Sensor Fusion.